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.
Mrs. Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis, says that the fall of Richmond must come. — A Diary From Dixie.
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