{"id":14870,"date":"2022-07-28T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T23:30:27","slug":"diary-of-a-southern-refugee-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/diary-of-a-southern-refugee-122\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI am so thankful that the scurf of the earth, of which the Federal army seems to be composed, has been driven away from Hanover.\u201d\u2014Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>28th.<\/em>\u2014The report of Hindman&#8217;s having captured Curtis untrue; but our army is doing well in the West. Murfreesboro&#8217;, in Tennessee, has been captured by Confederates\u2014a brigade, two brigadiers, and other officers, taken. &#8220;Jack Morgan&#8221; is annoying and capturing the Kentucky Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>The true Southerners there must endure an almost unbearable thraldom!<\/p>\n<p>A long letter from S. S., describing graphically their troubles when in Federal lines. Now they are breathing freely again. A number of servants from W. and S. H, and indeed from the whole Pamunky River, went off with their Northern friends. I am sorry for them, taken from their comfortable homes to go they know not where, and to be treated they know not how. Our man Nat went, to whom I was very partial, because his mother was the maid and humble friend of my youth, and because I had brought him up. He was a comfort to us as a driver and hostler, but now that we have neither home, carriage, nor horses, it makes but little difference with us; but how, with his slow habits, he is to support himself, I can&#8217;t imagine. The wish for freedom is natural, and if he prefers it, so far as I am concerned he is welcome to it. I shall be glad to hear that he is doing well. Mothers went off leaving children\u2014in two instances infants. Lord have mercy upon these poor misguided creatures! I am so thankful that the scurf of the earth, of which the Federal army seems to be composed, has been driven away from Hanover. I would that &#8220;Clarke&#8221; were as free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28th.\u2014The report of Hindman&#8217;s having captured Curtis untrue; but our army is doing well in the West. Murfreesboro&#8217;, in Tennessee, has been captured by Confederates\u2014a brigade, two brigadiers, and other officers, taken. &#8220;Jack Morgan&#8221; is annoying and capturing the Kentucky Yankees. The true Southerners there must endure an almost unbearable thraldom! A long letter from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":92645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-of-a-southern-refugee-during-the-war-by-judith-white-mcguire"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Judith-White-McQuire.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}