“Not a word did he speak, and when he turned his back on me, I saw him brush off the silent tears, and more than one step was uneven before his nerves became steady and he ready to report for duty.”
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Just damn...thanks for the great linkage, CP.
Thank you, Loddy. Mary was for a time avoided by her neighbors who thought her various secretive travels through the lines indicated that she might be a spy. Actually, she was taking food and winter clothing for the Confederate troops in winter quarters prior to and during the series of battles that ended with the Battle of Atlanta. The combined strength of Federal and Confederate armies gathered near Dalton that winter was the largest of the war.
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html
If I am not mistaken Chapel Hill is a left wing school!
I did not read this but I do know it crimmal when certain folks get artic facts of history and than spin them!
Like the 9/11 commission and we are alive and living as they revise history before the air we breath!