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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862 . (search)
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, June 14th , 1862 . (search)
June 14th, 1862.
While quietly sitting on the porch yesterday evening, I saw a young man rapidly approaching the house, on foot; at first we took it for granted that he was a Yankee, but soon found from his dress that he was one of our soldiers, and from his excited manner that there was something unusual the matter.
He was Lieutenant Latane, of Stuart's Brigade.
They had been fighting on the road from Hanover Court-House to the Old Church, and his brother, the captain of the Essex Troop, had been killed about two miles from W. The mill-cart from W. soon after passed along, and he put his brother's body into it, and brought it to W. There he found a Yankee picket stationed.
C. immediately took the dead soldier into her care, promising to bury him as tenderly as if he were her brother; and having no horse left on the place, (the enemy had taken them all,) sent him here, by a private way, to elude the vigilance of the picket, to get M's only remaining horsefor the poor fellow h