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Great suffering now exists and famine threatens with all its horrors...
-- The Spotsylvania Court to Richmond, May 1864
[The Yankees] were the meanest devils on earth, they killed all of our hogs, even the little pigs, and the cow ... [They] killed every hen and took all of our food; broke every lock on the place; our corn, oat and wheat fields are nothing more than the main road... and played destruction generally, but if we can only whip them and gain our independence, I am willing to give up all, yes everything.
-- Sallie Todd, Spotsylvania, May 15, 1864 |