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"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…

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"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…

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“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”

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“June 10-14, 1864. Lexington, Virginia. The daughter of Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton related how the women and children faced uncertainty and terror five days after the Federals came to their proud town.”

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“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her…

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“October 1864. Fauquier County, Virginia. A veteran describes “another link in the chain of heroic acts to the credit of the glorious women of the South.”
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