- Mary Boykin Chestnut Journal Entry.
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 6 July 1861
The cars were jammed with soldiers to the muzzle. They were very polite and considerate, and we had an agreeable journey, in spite of heat, dust, and crowd.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut Journal Entry.
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 7 July 1861
An antique female, with every hair curled and frizzed, said to be a Yankee spy, sits opposite us.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut Journal Entry.
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 9 July 1861
Our battle summer. May it be our first and our last, so called. After all we have not had any of the horrors of war. Could there have been a gayer, or pleasanter, life than we led in Charleston.
- Mary Boykin Chestnut Journal Entry.
Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, VA - 11 July 1861
The one who is under a cloud,, shadowed as a Yankee spy, has confirmed our worst suspicions. She exhibited unholy joy, as she reported seven hundred sick soldiers in the hospital at Culpeper
