United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
TO HER WHOSE TEACHINGS AND EXAMPLE MOULDED MY CHILDHOOD, WHOSE BLESSINGS AND WHOSE PRAYERS FOLLOWED AND SUSTAINED ME IN MATURE LIFE, AND WHOM GOD I HOPE WILL SPARE FOR MANY AND MANY A YEAR THAT I MAY HAVE TIME TO PAY HER A TITHE OF THE GRATITUDE AND LOVE I OWE HER,--MY DEAR SW...
TO HER WHOSE TEACHINGS AND EXAMPLE MOULDED MY CHILDHOOD, WHOSE BLESSINGS AND WHOSE PRAYERS FOLLOWED AND SUSTAINED ME IN MATURE LIFE, AND WHOM GOD I HOPE WILL SPARE FOR MANY AND...
2. Part 2In the autumn of 1863 I received a telegram that my husband was very ill with pneumonia, in camp near Culpeper, Va. Major-General Meade happened to be in Philadelphia at the tim...
3. Part 3You can imagine that this was a day to me of great anxiety. I looked out upon my husband’s camp, and found it was deserted. He had slipped away with his brigade, gone to the fro...
4. Part 4During this four-years’ drama I was sometimes in the audience, often behind the scenes, and once or twice upon the stage itself. When the curtain fell at last I did not apprecia...