Louise Wigfall Wright — A Southern Girl in ’61
    

The people are all strongly in hopes that Fort Sumter will be evacuated very soon.

(excerpt from letter by Louise Wigfall’s mother, Charlotte)

“CHARLESTON, April 2nd, 1861. “

We arrived here yesterday morning and I find very little change in the appearance of things since we were here eighteen months ago. You meet a good many soldiers, but that is about the only difference. The people are all strongly in hopes that Fort Sumter will be evacuated very soon. Some think to-day, and that the reason why it has been put off so long was on account of the New England elections. Your father has gone down to-day to visit the fortifications and has had the Lady Davis put at his command.”

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