May 7th, 1865.—Aunt Margaret has been busily making her preparations for going home and yesterday she received notice that General Fish would evacuate her premises on the 10th of May. So she is leaving us tomorrow. Most of the servants she brought with her are going back in the same wagons they came in but some are not willing to leave Florida.
Cousin Jim and Mr. Horton will take charge of the train and Uncle Arvah is going as far as Tennessee, in company with them, as he may be able to help her with the military authorities at Nashville. This is the last night they will be in Florida. We spent last night with them at Goodwood and they sleep here tonight for this is ten miles on their journey. Captain Oliver is going along, too. John Branch is going. He will make his home in Nashville. As, yet he has no plans for work of any kind. We Southern people will have to take the matter of employment into serious consideration, for the war has left us stripped of everything but land.
