{"id":14744,"date":"2022-06-24T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2021-07-26T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T05:59:48","slug":"a-diary-from-dixie-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-diary-from-dixie-124\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diary From Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>June 24th.<\/em>\u2013Mr. Chesnut, having missed the Secessionville \u00b9 fight by half a day, was determined to see the one around Richmond. He went off with General Cooper and Wade Hampton. Blanton Duncan sent them for a luncheon on board the cars,\u2013ice, wine, and every manner of good thing.<\/p>\n<p>In all this death and destruction, the women are the same\u2013chatter, patter, clatter. &#8220;Oh, the Charleston refugees are so full of airs; there is no sympathy for them here!&#8221; &#8220;Oh, indeed! That is queer. They are not half as exclusive as these Hamptons and Prestons. The airs these people do give themselves.&#8221; &#8220;Airs, airs,&#8221; laughed Mrs. Bartow, parodying Tennyson&#8217;s Charge of the Light Brigade. &#8220;Airs to the right of them, Airs to the left of them, some one had blundered.&#8221; &#8220;Volleyed and thundered rhymes but is out of place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The worst of all airs came from a democratic landlady, who was asked by Mrs. President Davis to have a carpet shaken, and shook herself with rage as she answered, &#8220;You know, madam, you need not stay here if my carpet or anything else does not suit you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Chesnut gives us a spirited account of their ride around McClellan. I sent the letter to his grandfather. The women ran out screaming with joyful welcome as soon as they caught sight of our soldiers&#8217; gray uniforms; ran to them bringing handfuls and armfuls of food. One grayheaded man, after preparing a hasty meal for them, knelt and prayed as they snatched it, as you may say. They were in the saddle from Friday until Sunday. They were used up; so were their horses. Johnny writes for clothes and more horses. Miss S. C. says: &#8220;No need to send any more of his fine horses to be killed or captured by the Yankees; wait and see how the siege of Richmond ends.&#8221; The horses will go all the same, as Johnny wants them.<\/p>\n<p>______<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9 The battle of Secessionville occurred on James Island, in the harbor of Charleston, June 16, 1862.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24th.\u2013Mr. Chesnut, having missed the Secessionville \u00b9 fight by half a day, was determined to see the one around Richmond. He went off with General Cooper and Wade Hampton. Blanton Duncan sent them for a luncheon on board the cars,\u2013ice, wine, and every manner of good thing. In all this death and destruction, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-diary-from-dixie-by-mary-boykin-miller-chesnut"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/chesnut_mary-264x300-1-e1617288767771.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}