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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
ned to follow the Conspirators in their flight, to avoid the expected wrath of their outraged Government. an eye-witness wrote: at all the private houses that I passed — houses of regular Richmond families — the balconies were filled with ladies, evidently resolved to brave the dangers consequent on being left alone. They were mute. They looked terror-stricken, and, in many cases, powerless and mute. The crisis had come with fearful suddenness upon them, although for years it impended. Wolf was cried so often, when, at last it came, they could not credit the fact, or, crediting it, they were palsied. It was not resignation; it was nearer akin to desperation. It was woeful to witness their sturdy, stolid sadness. gathering up the most valuable and portable articles within reach, they packed for a journey they knew not whither. So great was the demand for vehicles beyond the supply, because of their having been pressed into the Government service, that as much as one hundred