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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, May 24th , 1862 . (search)
May 24th, 1862.
We were aroused this morning at an early hour, by the servants rushing in, exclaiming: The house is surrounded by Yankees, and they are coming into the house.
I rushed to the window, and there they were.
An officer in the front porch, and a squad of cut-throat-looking fellows on the steps; while a number, with their red streamers and lances, were dashing hither and thither; some at the stable, some at the kitchen, others around the servants' quarters and at the barn, while the lane was filled with them.
Dr. T. had spent the night with little L., who is ill with scarlet fever.
I knocked at his door, and asked him to go down and see what the people wanted.
We dressed as rapidly as possible.
C. and M. had been up all night with L., and were soon ready to go down.
They quickly returned, to say that the officer was Colonel Rush, of Philadelphia, and demanded that my little son Edward should be sent down immediately.
It was in vain that they told him that E. was