April 1st.—Mrs. Davis is utterly depressed. She said the fall of Richmond must come; she would send her children to me and Mrs. Preston. We begged her to come to us also. My husband is as depressed as I ever knew him to be. He has felt the death of that angel mother of his keenly, and now he takes his country’s woes to heart.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Mrs. Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, says that the fall of Richmond must come. — A Diary From Dixie.
April 1.—The funeral ceremonies of Owen Lovejoy, were held at his late residence near the town of Princeton, Illinois.—The steamer Maple Leaf, while returning to Jacksonville from Pilatka, struck a rebel torpedo, which exploded, tearing off the steamer’s entire bow, the vessel sinking in ten minutes. Two firemen and two deck-hands were drowned. The passengers, sixty in number, were safely landed, but their baggage was all lost, including that of two or three regiments.—The battle of Fitzhugh’s Woods, Ark., was fought this day.—(Doc. 128.) —A party of rebels made an attack on Brooks’s plantation, (which was being worked on a Government lease,) near Snydersville, on the Yazoo River, and destroyed all the valuable buildings and machinery. The First Massachusetts cavalry, (colored,) six hundred strong, drove the rebels off, after an hour’s fight. The enemy numbered nearly one thousand five hundred. The Union loss was sixteen killed. Ten killed and wounded of the rebels were left on the field.
by John Beauchamp Jones
APRIL 1ST.—Cloudy all day, with occasional light showers.
No war news; but the papers have an account of the shooting of an infant by some Yankees on account of its name. This shows that the war is degenerating more and more into savage barbarism.
