{"id":24912,"date":"2025-04-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=24912"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:08:11","slug":"a-diary-from-dixie-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-diary-from-dixie-261\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diary From Dixie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>April 22d.<\/i>\u2013This yellow Confederate quire of paper, my journal, blotted by entries, has been buried three days with the silver sugar-dish, teapot, milk-jug, and a few spoons and forks that follow my fortunes as I wander. With these valuables was Hood&#8217;s silver cup, which was partly crushed when he was wounded at Chickamauga.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a wild three days, with aides galloping around with messages, Yankees hanging over us like a sword of Damocles. We have been in queer straits. We sat up at Mrs. Bedon&#8217;s dressed, without once going to bed for forty-eight hours, and we were aweary.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Cadwallader Jones came with a despatch, a sealed secret despatch. It was for General Chesnut. I opened it. Lincoln, old Abe Lincoln, has been killed, murdered, and Seward wounded! Why? By whom? It is simply maddening, all this.<\/p>\n<p>I sent off messenger after messenger for General Chesnut. I have not the faintest idea where he is, but I know this foul murder will bring upon us worse miseries. Mary Darby says, &#8220;But they murdered him themselves. No Confederates are in Washington.&#8221; &#8220;But if they see fit to accuse us of instigating it?&#8221; &#8220;Who murdered him?<i> <\/i>Who knows?&#8221; &#8220;See if they don&#8217;t take vengeance on us, now that we are ruined and can not repel them any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The death of Lincoln I call a warning to tyrants. He will not be the last President put to death in the capital, though he is the first.<\/p>\n<p>Buck never submits to be bored. The bores came to tea at Mrs. Bedon&#8217;s, and then sat and talked, so prosy, so wearisome was the discourse, so endless it seemed, that we envied Buck, who was mooning on the piazza. She rarely speaks now.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px auto; display: block;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/image_thumb.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"483\" height=\"908\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 22d.\u2013This yellow Confederate quire of paper, my journal, blotted by entries, has been buried three days with the silver sugar-dish, teapot, milk-jug, and a few spoons and forks that follow my fortunes as I wander. With these valuables was Hood&#8217;s silver cup, which was partly crushed when he was wounded at Chickamauga. It has [&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-24912","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\/24912","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=24912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24912\/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=24912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}