{"id":94755,"date":"2025-01-20T02:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T07:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=94755"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:09:06","slug":"a-southern-girl-in-61-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-southern-girl-in-61-80\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">(<em>excerpts<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8220;HD. QRTS., Jan. 20th, 1865.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;My dear Wigfall:<\/i><br \/>\n&#8220;Your message to me by Mr. Davis reached me a day or two ago. As I am about to start to S. C., I anticipate your letter by writing at once to you. It gave me great pleasure to see your return mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; . . . We are passing through a fiery ordeal but if we &#8216;quit ourselves like men&#8217; we must be successful. I do not allow myself to contemplate any other than a successful issue to our struggle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have given far more than all my property to this cause, and I am ready to give all. Genl. Lee thinks that I may be of some service in South Carolina and I go to see what I can do there&#8230; I am going to fight for my State and I am willing to fight anywhere. The record of the cavalry which has fought under my command, is that this campaign has been an honorable one, and I take great pride in it. They have been successful in <i>every fight<\/i>\u2014not a few\u2014have captured large supplies of arms and taken not less than 10,000 prisoners. So I leave the record good&#8230;. What will be done with the Army of Tennessee? You know how highly I regard Hood, how much I esteem him. but it was a mistake to remove Johnston. The army had perfect confidence in him and I am convinced that they will not fight as well under anyone else as under him; therefore do I regard his removal as a national calamity. And if the President would reinstate him it would not only restore public confidence, but would strengthen the President greatly. I wish, my dear Wigfall, that you would forget the differences of the past and try to re-establish the intimate relations that once existed between Mr. Davis and yourself. You can aid him greatly and you can serve the country by giving him counsel&#8230;. I wish that I could have seen you before leaving this State, as there is much I want to talk to you about. But I hope to meet you in brighter times when my heart is not so oppressed by public and private anxieties. . . . But I bate not one jot or tittle of our claims and I shall fight as long as I can wield my sabre. I hope your family are well. Give my kindest regards to them and believe me to be,<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8220;Very sincerely, your friend,<br \/>\n&#8220;WADE HAMPTON.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hon. L. T. Wigfall,<br \/>\n&#8220;Write to Columbia.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(excerpts) &#8220;HD. QRTS., Jan. 20th, 1865. &#8220;My dear Wigfall: &#8220;Your message to me by Mr. Davis reached me a day or two ago. As I am about to start to S. C., I anticipate your letter by writing at once to you. It gave me great pleasure to see your return mentioned. &#8221; . . 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