Sunday evening. Had company every day last week, paroled
soldiers returning to their homes. Last night a Mr. and Mrs. Adams, refugees
from Alberta, who have been spending the time in Eatonton, called to stay all
night. I felt as though I could not take them in. I had purposely kept in the
back part of the house all the evening with my blinds down and door locked, to
keep from being troubled by soldiers, and had just gone into my room with a
light, when some one knocked at the door, and wanted shelter for himself and
family. I could not turn away women and children, so I took them in. Found them
very pleasant people. They had Government wagons along, and he had them guarded
all night. I fear there was something in them which had been surrendered, and
belonged to the United States, but he assured me that with the exception of the
mules and wagon, all belonged to himself. He said that he left Jeff Davis at
Washington in this State, on Thursday morning last. His enemies are in close
pursuit of him, offering a hundred thousand reward to his captors.
SOURCE: Dolly Lunt Burge, A Woman's Wartime Journal,
p. 49-50
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