Another day and night have passed, and nothing of importance
has occurred to the country. We are expecting movements in every direction. O
God! direct our leaders!
Our daughter M.[1] is with us, quite sick; her
husband[2] has just arrived from North Carolina, where he is
attached to General Whiting's command.
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[1] Mary Eleanor Mercer McGuire Johns
[2] John Johns
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 260
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