A Diary from Dixie As written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army

CHAPTER XVIII.—COLUMBIA, S. C., _July 6, 1864-January 17, 1865_.

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Gen. Joe Johnston superseded and the Alabama sunk—The author’s new home—Sherman at Atlanta—The battle of Mobile Bay—At the hospital in Columbia—Wade Hampton’s two sons shot—Hood crushed at Nashville—Farewell to Mulberry—Sherman’s advance eastward—The end near 313