February 7th

Extracts from Mary Chesnut's diary entry for February 7th, 1865:

"Sunday afternoon I was partly wild. I could only see 'Sam' [Gnl. J.B. Hood] maimed & helpless - with his face of the tortured in Hades...I was morbid and miserable...Lincoln has returned our peace commissioners - with taunting words & we had to read to day a sneering leader of the London Times - amusing themselves at our stupidity in thinking they would help us if we abolished slavery - & adding if we offered ourselves as subjects to any foreign power, they would 'decline with thanks'"