(1861) 
Sunday Nov. 17" (Continued) 
more than 3 months, while it greatly nerved the rebels, but they have now been driven from Md. Western Va. the greater portion of Ky. and Mo. And we have now a fleet on the Atlantic that is weekly taking possession of some port. The capture of Port Royal Nov. 7th was the first dawn of victory on the Atlantic. The whole coast from the Chesapeake Bay to the Rio Grande is tolerable effectually blockaded. 
Monday Nov. 18" 
Last night friend G. W. Lowley and myself walked over town, saw but one citizen on the street, in this once flourishing town of 7000 inhabitants. Half the houses had no lights burning. Everything seemed as solemn as death. Passing a mansion like building, at 8 P.M. we heard a lady singing in her room in the 2d story, the windows were raised, her sweet voice was heard but a short distance. She seemed to say, "Oh! my once happy home how desolate now." The weather is now beginning to get cold, the wind as it comes hissing and whistling through the oak
