A delicate piece of
business is this managing of so many men in one lump! They will have ideas of
their own, the most stupid among them! And they all want to be first in
importance. I feel in a humor to "size up" some of them tonight, not
ill-naturedly, but only for my own amusement. Major W—— is a squire of dames
and admirable as a raconteur; Colonel P—— laughs and flatters, and flatters and
laughs, and positively that is all he ever does or knows how to do; B—— is an
amiable, domesticated creature; T—— has excellent intentions, and a great many
of them, and no doubt, in due course of time, he'll find that place where such
things are said to abound; C—— just falls short of everything—but can he help
it, poor fellow? P—— is a man who has risen superior to himself; Z—— is a dead
level of dulness; as to C——'s manners, he is a debtor "both to the Greeks
and the barbarians"; K—— is a Joseph Surface; General "enjoys"
bad health; L—— is a negative instance; F—— is a mosaic of sentiment; and as
for the others, it being so late, and I so sleepy, they will happily escape
this time!
SOURCE: South
Carolina State Committee United Daughters of the Confederacy, South
Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. 1, “A Confederate
Girl's Diary,” p. 281-2
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