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he could well take care of. Accompanied Captain Walcott to Danville.
Staid all night there.
July 7th.--Arrived at Nicholasville.
Ordered before the Provost-Marshal.
Sent on to Lexington.
Arrived in the afternoon, and immediately ordered to prison.
Visited by some sweet, pretty, and kind ladies.
God bless them t I know he will.
July 8th.--Great rejoicing in Lexington over the fall of Vicksburgh.
(I do not believe it.) It is a great disaster, one among the very worst that could befall us., But even if it is so, and even should Lee's army be destroyed and every town in the South burned, the rebellion would be unsubdued.
There are a hundred thousand men in the South who feel as I do, that they would rather an earthquake should swallow the whole country than yield to our oppressors-men who will retire to the mountains and live on acorns, and crawl on their bellies to shoot an invader wherever they can see one.
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