Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War, 1867 #260771

To keep a true record. Enormous as were the wrongs done us, yet we had no desire to do the slightest wrong to even the bitterest 'of our enemies. We refused not to do them justice we were not unwilling to seek for them the mercy of Heaven; to extend to them the hand of Charity; to supply their wants when captured to attend as far as possible to their sick, and dying, and dead; and asked for nothing from them but that they would leave our borders.