Rose Cottage Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida
by Arch Fredric Blakey
Category: Biography & Autobiography

Especially, though, the letters tell a love story. The courtship of Winston Stephens and Tivie Bryant was prolonged, erratic, and stormy; their married life at Rose Cottage was nearly perfect - and brief. Four years and three months after their wedding - during the final ticks of the Confederate clock - Winston was killed in battle. Days later their only son was born.