Charlotte, N. C.—We
barely escaped with the skin of our teeth! The flight from Richmond was even
more hasty and exciting than the exodus from Columbia, only I am not equal to
writing about it. Congressman F—— accompanied us and other friends. I fear it
is all up with the Confederacy, and with me also. I am ill; I have fever—typhoid.
SOURCE: South
Carolina State Committee United Daughters of the Confederacy, South
Carolina Women in the Confederacy, Vol. 1, “A Confederate
Girl's Diary,” p. 284
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