From Mrs. Lyon’s Diary
Fort Henry, Tenn., Jan. 14, 1863.—A party of twenty of us went to Fort Donelson, returning the same day. While going there the carriage in which I rode broke down, upset and rolled us all out in the road in fine confusion. Except a few slight bruises nobody was injured. Mrs. Stanton fainted away and we had to take her into a house. Here we saw for the first time the filthy habit of dipping. They take a small stick and chew the end of it into a brush, then stick it into Scotch snuff and rub it all around their teeth.
