The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-09-14

meuCuIc llhb Delb, WIFI lLS nfik-s
buckle and the letters @. S. A. on it, she
has ever since worn, and no member oi
the old guard wears his cross of honor
with more pride than docs she her Con.
federate belt. Through all the dreary
days of defeat and disaster, ofterror and
devastation, she remained IN her humble
home, threatened oft, it is true, with a
visit, but she never surrendered her cas-
tie or denied her sympathies.
The war ended and peace came, but
the poor girls trials were not ended.
She had loved fOHdly her brave sollier
lover, and when he came, after the sur
render at Appomattox, to bid her fare
well for season, and told her he was
going to prepare home for her in the
far South, amid the orange groves OF
Louisiana, she believed him, and trust
ingly waited through long, weary years,
But she heard not Of OF from him, till
one day last fall letter came telling
her that he had been unfortunate; that
sickness and many disasters by flood
and field had kept him from her, but
that if she would send him money he
would come and wed her. Suspicion
by this time had made her voice heard,
and by tie advice OF o true and tried
friend in Baltimore, she wrote to a gen.
tleman in Louisiana to know something
OF her lover. in due season letter ar
rived which informed her that he was a
well-to-do man-the husband Of d de-
voted wife, and father of two children.
There was no wringing of hands, no
thought of suicide, but like the brave,
self-reliaht wonidfi she is, she drew her
belt tighter and resolved to work on
alone, and if truer; better mdh did
not offer himself she would at least have
enough laid up to make old age COM
Portable. We have said she is intelli-
gent and cultivated, and 80 she is. II
she was in that line we would wager 0ul
head for football that she could make
better, more pointed and more eloquent
speech than Mrs. Staunton, Miss Antho-
NY or our Olive" either: In atswel
to orir first inquiries as to how she came
to be leading this lonely life, with much
t1aivete she said, "Oh! you know, there
is tide in the affairs of women which
taken at the food, leads-God knows
where" &c, quoting Byron correctly
and apropos. She talks rapidly and
well, and has q fine command of Ian.
guage, always using the right word end
never making grammatical taat PTS
She is great reader and has afi inti-
mate knowledge of several standard au.
thors, and on her table we saw Littell's
Living Age and the Atlantic Monthly
The life she leads is hct altogether fa-
vorabls to the cultivation of II literary
taste. She has planted and raised ten
acres of corn and five more of oats, doing
all the work herself, even to breaking up
the ground. She has horse, three fine
milch cows, and quite little herd o.
cattle, besides five or six fine hogs. The
cattle, owing to the destruction of fences
in this us well as other sections of tht
valley, she is obliged to herd during the
day; and any morning, rain or shine
you can see her mounted on her horse
(on an army saddle) with oil-cloth shell
ter-tent, marshalling her little drove
and at eyentid6 returning. Her dress
generally consists of short dress o.
plain material with top-boots and q
straw hat. She is rather under thar
above the medium height, rather slen.
derly than stoutly built, and while hel
face is not pretty, it is nevertheless ont
you would like, for it ears q kindly
smile. The life she leads has of course
caused some talk in the neighborhood
but there is neither man nor woman il
an the country round who has evel
dared to whisper that she is not chOstt
and pure.