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 VIII.—FAUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va., _July 6,

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1861-July 11, 1861_.

Cars crowded with soldiers—A Yankee spy—Anecdotes of Lincoln—Gaiety in social life—Listening for guns—A horse for Beauregard 77