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As one of the aides of President Jefferson Davis, I left Richmond with him and his cabinet on April 2, 1865, the night of evacuation, and accompanied him through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, until his capture. Except Lieutenant Barnwell, I was the only one of the party who escaped.
"I guess you like Aunt Tommy pretty well, don't you, Mr. Richmond?" "Yes," said Dick softly. "So do other men," I said mysterious, as Jill had ordered me. Dick thumped one of the sofa pillows. "Yes, I suppose so," he said. "There's a man in New York who just worships Aunt Tommy," I said. "He writes her most every day and sends her books and music and elegant presents.
By Jove, it suits us Forsytes! Not that Forsytes lived there nobody lived there save royalty, rangers, and the deer but in Richmond Park Nature was allowed to go so far and no further, putting up a brave show of being natural, seeming to say: 'Look at my instincts they are almost passions, very nearly out of hand, but not quite, of course; the very hub of possession is to possess oneself. Yes!
Democracies are mercurial; variability seems to be part of the price of freedom. With childlike faith in their cause, the Northern people, in midsummer, were crying, "On to Richmond!" In the autumn, stung by defeat, they were ready to cry, "Down with Lincoln."
In anticipation of Lee's movement, General Hooker had written to the President, probably suggesting a counter-movement across the Rappahannock, somewhere near Fredericksburg, to threaten Richmond, and thus check Lee's advance. This, however. President Lincoln refused to sanction.
The instructions he received were exactly the instructions he would have given had he been in command at Richmond; and it may be questioned whether even he would have carried them out with such whole-hearted vigour if he had not thoroughly agreed with every detail. Lee's strategy was indeed remarkable. He knew McClellan and he knew Lincoln.
Defeated on the Chickahominy, and seeing little to encourage an advance, on the left bank of the James, upon Richmond, General McClellan proposed to cross that river and operate against the capital and its communications, near Petersburg.
We heard English laughter near us. Presently an English gentleman accosted us. 'Mr. Villiers, I believe? He bowed at me. 'My name is Richmond. He bowed again, with excuses, talked of the Play, and telegraphed to a lady sitting in a box fronting us. I saw that she wrote on a slip of paper; she beckoned; the gentleman quitted us, and soon after placed a twisted note in my hand.
"To Leila but do not alarm them." "I will write. In a week or two you must go home. That is the medicine you need most. You will still have some pain, but you will not lose the arm." "Thank you but what of the army? I am a bit confused as to time. Parke attacked on the second of April, I think. What day is this?" "Oh, they got out of Petersburg that night out of Richmond too.
That being determined, no one could guess its destination. Later in the night, probably as day approached, the sky in the direction of Richmond was lit with the red glare of distant conflagration, and at short intervals there were deep, growling explosions of magazines. The roads were filled with other troops, all hurrying in the same direction.
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