A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer

This history was told over the tea-cups. One winter, in the South, I had for my neighbor a gentle, little brown-haired lady, who spent many evenings at my fireside, as I at hers, where with bits of needlework in our hands we gossiped away as women will. I discovered in her an unconscious heroine, and her Civil War experiences made ever an interesting topic. Wishing to share with others the reminiscences she gave me, I seek to present them here in her own words. Just as they stand, they are, I believe, unique, possessing at once the charm of romance and the veracity of history. They supply a graphic, if artless, picture of the social life of one of the most interesting and dramatic periods of our national existence. The stories were not related in strict chronological sequence, but I have endeavored to arrange them in vi that way. Otherwise, I have made as few changes as possible. Out of deference to the wishes of living persons, her own and her husbands real names have been suppressed and others substituted; in the case of a few of their close personal friends, and of some whose names would not be of special historical value, the same plan has been followed. Those who read this book are admitted to the sacred councils of close friends, and I am sure they will turn with reverent fingers these pages of a sweet and pure womans lifea life on which, since those fireside talks of ours, the Death-Angel has set his seal. Memoirs and journals written not because of their historical or political significance, but because they are to the writer the natural expression of what life has meant to him in the moment of living, have a value entirely apart from literary quality. They bring us close to the human soulthe human soul in undress. We find ourselves without preface or apology in personal, intimate relation with whatever makes the yesterday, to-day, to-morrow of the writer. When this current of events and conditions is impelled and directed by a vital vii and formative period in the history of a nation, we have only to follow its course to see what history can never show us, and what fiction can unfold to us only in parthow the people thought, felt, and lived who were not making history, or did not know that they were. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 52070
Author: Avary, Myrta Lockett
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English