Write me down a witch, a prophetess, or what you will. I am
certainly something! All has come to pass on that very disagreeable subject
very much as I feared. Perhaps no one in my position would speak freely on the
subject; for that very reason I shall not hesitate to discuss it.
Know, then, that this morning, He went North along with many
other Confederate prisoners, to be exchanged. And he left — he who has written
so incessantly and so imploringly for me to visit his prison — he left without
seeing me. Bon! Wonder what happened?
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's
Diary, p. 415-6
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