A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.
    

A Diary From Dixie

April 26th.–Doleful dumps, alarm-bells ringing. Telegrams say the mortar fleet has passed the forts at New Orleans. Down into the very depths of despair are we.

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