Will [Pinckney] has this instant left. Ever since dinner he
has been vehemently opposing the Georgia move, insisting that it will cost me
my life, by rendering me a confirmed cripple. He says he could take care
of me, but no one else can, so I must not be moved. I am afraid his arguments
have about shaken mother's resolution. Pshaw! it will do me good! I must go. It
will not do to remain here. Twenty-seven thousand Yankees are preparing to
march on Port Hudson, and this place will certainly be either occupied by them,
or burned. To go to Clinton is to throw myself in their hands, so why not one
grand move to Augusta?
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's
Diary, p. 327-8
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