charlottesville, Nov. 26th, 1863.
. . . We hear to-night that the Army is to move, it is
thought to Fredericksburg.
The news from the West has made every one look very blue — and
I should think Mr. Davis would feel very uncomfortable with such a weight to
carry. . . . What is to happen next no one can tell. We are all quite busy
getting ready to go to Richmond. We leave here Monday, Dec. 1st. . . . I had a letter from Mrs. Johnston a few
days ago. She was with her husband at Meridian. I expect he feels very keenly
his present position; it is certainly an odd one — for such a general, at such
a time — no army and nothing to do. I suppose you have seen by the papers that
Genl. Hood is in Richmond. We hear that Dr. Darby is going to Europe to buy a
leg for him, so Gen'l Ewell told your father; he is up here at present with his
wife.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 160-1
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