The problem is it makes it sound like America s 1860s makeover was a quick and easy process. One big gust and the old way of doing things was history.
Time rolls on.
I would fain forget the rest of her history, but cannot. From that time the magic spell was broken. April 1861, and war, had come. The wartime diaries and letters of the Bernard sisters Pocahontas Scott, Mary Guest, Lelia Robertson, and Helen Robb are the subject of local writer Rebecca Campbell Light s first book, War at Our Doors. The 133-page book actually is a runaway tangent from another project of the writer, who has authored numerous articles about the region in the 18th and 19th centuries.