Columbia, S. C.—This
wild talk about the Federal Army and what it's going to do is all nonsense.
Coming here! Sherman! Why not say he's going to Paramaribo? One is about as
likely as the other, notwithstanding that papa shakes his head so solemnly over
it, and mamma looks so grave. He is always shaking his head over something, it
seems to me, and she forever looking grave. I do hope I shall be able to get
around being old, somehow. Old people's weather is all bad weather; their
horoscope all background; their expectation all disappointment; their
probabilities all failures. No doubt I am foolish—mamma says I am—but there's a
certain satisfaction in being young and foolish rather than old and wise.
SOURCE: South Carolina
State Committee United Daughters of the Confederacy, South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. 1, “A Confederate
Girl's Diary,” p. 272
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