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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1864. (search)
al wound, he sent his troops on in pursuit of Sheridan, under the command of General Fitz Lee, as he enemy, and a sharp skirmish ensued, in which Sheridan's rear suffered very much. In the mean time,ia, his pathway marked by fire and sword; and Sheridan has followed Early into Virginia, with no ves done, not in Virginia only; nor are Hunter, Sheridan, Kilpatrick, or Stoneman the only men who do cipline in the troops. August 11, 1864. Sheridan's and Early's troops are fighting in the Vals. Whether these things have been ordered by Sheridan or Custar, we do not know. These two woundednow what we suffer during this unnatural war. Sheridan does not mean that Hunter or Butler shall beaount of private property has been destroyed. Sheridan, glorying in his shame, boasts of, and probabd have certainly had many successes of late. Sheridan, instead of capturing Lynchburg, as he promiswe know not. More troops have been added from Sheridan to Grant, and Early to Lee, and Sherman has c
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1865. (search)
is confinement has not been so bad as we feared, from the treatment which many other prisoners had received, but it was disagreeable enough. He was among the surgeons in Winchester in charge of the sick and wounded; and when we retreated before Sheridan after the battle of the 19th of August, it fell to his lot, among eighteen or twenty other surgeons, to be left there to take care of our captured wounded. When those duties were at an end, instead of sending them under flag of truce to our owns you all for it I am now almost at my journey's end. When I looked up I found the men subdued and sorrowful. The story, and the weak, sad tones with which it was told, had touched them all, and brought tears from some. March 11th, 1865. Sheridan's raid through the country is perfectly awful, and he has joined Grant, without being caught. Oh, how we listened to hear that he had been arrested in his direful career! It was, I suppose, the most cruel and desolating raid upon record — more