I dined with Mr and Mrs H––– this afternoon, and after dinner they
drove me to the Battery, which is the popular promenade. A great many
well-dressed people and a few carriages were there, but the H–––s say it is
nothing to what it was. Most of the horses and carriages have been sent out of
Charleston since the last attack. Mrs H––– told me all the ladies began to move
out of Charleston on the morning after the repulse of the Monitors, the
impression being that the serious attack was about to begin. I talked to her
about the smart costumes of the negro women on Sundays; she said the only
difference between them and their mistresses is, that a mulatto woman is not
allowed to wear a veil.
SOURCE: Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, Three
Months in the Southern States: April-June, 1863, p. 188
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