Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire.

June 16, 2013

Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by Judith White McGuire

16th.—The morning papers gave a telegram from General Lee, announcing that General Early’s Brigade had taken Winchester by storm. So again Winchester and all that beautiful country, Clarke, etc., are disenthralled.

It is said that our army will go to Pennsylvania. This I dread; but it is in God’s hands, I believe, for good and not for evil.

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