Detailed as provost
guard at Richmond. This is one of the prettiest places I have yet seen. We are
encamped on the property of a Mr. Anderson, a cousin of the General Anderson of
Fort Sumter fame. Mr. Anderson voted against secession and for Bell and
Everett, but is now a secessionist and says there is no such thing as a
unionist in the South. Headquarters tent is pitched in his garden and
surrounded by flowers which are in full bloom. It is so different from what it
is at home. The air is so soft and balmy that I feel like resting all the time.
SOURCE: Joseph
Stockton, War Diary (1862-5) of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph
Stockton, p. 13
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