Reached Montgomery
this afternoon about 5:30, just too late for the cars, hence must be detained
another night on the road. I walked up town a little while ago and met Mr. John
A. Elmore; inquired about Culp, my old college chum, and found he was a lieutenant
in the army at Vicksburg; his family is with his father-in-law. Heard here of
"Stonewall" Jackson's death; it is a sad calamity for the south, but
I doubt not God will raise up other great spirits to aid us with their counsels
and to fight our battles for us. I wrote a letter on the steamboat, which I
intended to hand to some one to mail across the Mississippi, or else mail it in
Augusta.
SOURCE: John Camden
West, A Texan in Search of a Fight: Being the Diary and Letters of a
Private Soldier in Hood’s Texas Brigade, p. 37
