On dit the Yankees have gone back to Baton Rouge,
hearing we had sixty thousand men coming down after them. I believe I am
positively disappointed! I did want to see them soundly thrashed! The light we
thought was another burning house was that of the Mississippi. They say the
shrieks of the men when our hot shells fell among them, and after they were
left by their companions to burn, were perfectly appalling.
Another letter from Lilly has distressed me beyond measure.
She says the one chicken and two dozen eggs Miriam and I succeeded in buying
from the negroes by prayers and entreaties, saved them from actual hunger; and
for two days they had been living on one egg apiece and some cornbread and
syrup. Great heavens! has it come to this? Nothing to be bought in that
abominable place for love or money. Where the next meal comes from, nobody
knows.
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's Diary,
p. 340
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