Dec. 11. There was communion service held at the house this
morning. Dr. Quintard officiated and prayer was offered up for the Confederate
Congress for the first time publicly in this country, I suppose, since our army
retreated from the state. It is bitterly cold. Fortunately the troops are lying
quiet and can have their fires to keep warm by. I feel, I assure you, for the
poor fellows in the skirmish line in such weather.
In each brigade a detail has been set at work making shoes
for the barefooted men from leather obtained in the country. They are making
some twenty pairs a day in each brigade, and in addition, there is a large
supply coming from the rear, so you see we are getting on finely.
The Quartermasters and Commissaries too are hard at work
getting other supplies and the R. R. is in operation from Pulaski to Franklin.
We have gotten into a real land of plenty and I sincerely trust we shall never
leave the State except it be to enter Kentucky. I don't believe myself that the
Yankees will allow us to enter Winter Quarters, even should we desire it,
without a fight. Of course, in order to make a fight they must leave their
entrenchments, and if they attack us in ours or allow us to attack them without
works, I feel not the slightest fear of the result. . . .
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 214-5
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