It has been many months since I wrote in this journal, and
many things of interest have occurred. But above all I give thanks to God for
His goodness in preserving my life and so much of my property for me. My
freedmen have been with me and have worked for one-sixth of my crop.
This is a very rainy, unpleasant day. How many poor freedmen
are suffering! Thousands of them must be exposed to the pitiless rain! Oh, that
everybody would do right, and there would not be so much suffering in the
world! Sadai and I are all alone in the house. We have been reading, talking,
and thus spending the hours until she went to bed, that I might play Santa
Claus. Her stocking hangs invitingly in the corner. Happy child and childhood,
that can be so easily made content!
SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal,
p. 52-3
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