My husband at last did come for a visit of two hours.
Brought Lawrence, who had been to Camden, and was there, indeed, during the
raid. My husband has been ordered to Chester, S. C. We are surprised to see by
the papers that we behaved heroically in leaving everything we had to be
destroyed, without one thought of surrender. We had not thought of ourselves
from the heroic point of view. Isaac McLaughlin hid and saved everything we
trusted him with. A grateful negro is Isaac.
SOURCES: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 364
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