After breakfast this morning I went over to my grave-yard to
see what had befallen that. To my joy, I found it had not been disturbed. As I
stood by my dead, I felt rejoiced that they were at rest. Never have I felt so
perfectly reconciled to the death of my husband as I do to-day, while looking
upon the ruin of his lifelong labor. How it would have grieved him to see such
destruction! Yes, theirs is the lot to be envied. At rest, rest from care, rest
from heartaches, from trouble. . . .
Found one of my large hogs killed just outside the
grave-yard.
Walked down to the swamp, looking for the wagon and gear
that Henry hid before he was taken off. Found some of my sheep; came home very
much wearied, having walked over four miles.
Mr. and Mrs. Rockmore called. Major Lee came down again
after some cattle, and while he was here the alarm was given that more Yankees
were coming. I was terribly alarmed and packed my trunks with clothing, feeling
assured that we should be burned out now. Major Lee swore that he would shoot,
which frightened me, for he was intoxicated enough to make him ambitious. He
rode off in the direction whence it was said they were coming. Soon after,
however, he returned, saying it was a false alarm, that it was some of our own
men. Oh, dear! Are we to be always living in fear and dread! Oh, the horrors,
the horrors of war!
SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal,
p. 38-40
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