Lay to, soon after midnight. A full attendance at breakfast.
Three inches of snow on deck; effeminate southerners of six months' standing,
shivering like Italian greyhounds. . . . . We drove to the hotel and played
soldier like young idiots coming home from school. . . . .
. . . . Arrived at Washington, half past six.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and
Extracts from Diary, Volume 1, p. 179. See Michael Burlingame & John R.
Turner Ettlinger, Editors, Inside Lincoln's White House: The Complete
Civil War Diary of John Hay, p. 182 for the full diary entry.
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