June 11th.
We are still at the Spotswood Hotel but I don't know whether
we shall continue very long. The President and his family will move next week
to the place selected for them. I hear it is very handsome and the City Council
has bought and put it at the disposal of the Government. They have also given
Mrs. Davis the use of a nice carriage and horses and seem disposed to do all
they can to show their joy at the exchange from Montgomery. . . . So far all is quiet here and I can yet
scarcely realize that we are at war, actually.
SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in
’61, p. 55-6
