Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-01
Theiaged sire and matr0n gray,
Aud the far bride of yesJer eve,
saw their loved ones haste away,
And deemed 10 sin TO grieve.

saw their loved ones haste away,
And deemed 10 sin TO grieve.
kept M account book all right, until
lone dark day. [ had news from camp
hat my husband was very i'll in Virginia,
<nOt far from Manassas lust a few weeks
after the great battle there. Then / left
my little ones and went with my father to
seek bim. We found him with friends in
CulpeRper county. Oh, those noble Nir-
ginia women The one who nursed my
husband back TO life through long tedl-
Gus camp fever, had then a lovely home
8 IN Cuipfpper, whose large, airy rooms
were k6ptlnlled with sick and GONZALES
icing soldiers, while every week she car
Zried or sent TO the sick AID wounded in
hospitals large baskets OF Injuries, and
ielicacles prepared by herself and her
lovely dau ghteTs. She stayed there at her
ome with her husband sending her
daughters TO Georgia TO relatives, and
when cur army WAS forced back by over
|VhelmiDc,'' mum bers she stood in her
Itch IN over her stove and cooked for our
p.r4aung men rs they were passing her
ONE, until perfectly exhausted from ia
que and over-eXertiou, she took her bed
ever 10 rise az ain. WAS with her daugb-
RS when they received the sad news OF
er death. A friend wrote them how she
nd laid her life willing sacrifice on the
tar Of or beloved South. She rad sent
lem away, fearing for them the brutality
the Yankee army, aud she had STAYED
Ito her husband Gan old man 10 minis
90 the comfort Of our suffering sol
ers. No 'iy and faithfully had she done
seven unto DEATH and now she is
lubtless enjoying the martyrs crown in
at blest land where there are no more
airs, nor rumors Of wars, in those days
rely.
nth had angels. though their forms were
moulded.
Bat Of such clay, as fashions all below,
ley walked among US with their bright wings
folded.
we knew them by the love-nght on their
brow.
After time, my husband was well
loVgh to return to his post Of duty and
I almost sorry he was really well, for
En- we must part again, ana there in
rginia the war seemed such dark, ter
le reality, e IS II had not seemed to me
flle in Georgia. How | dreaded 10 20
elk and leave hin there 10 suffer the
rdships OF a winter In camp, and vet
I'D not be with him and must 20 back
My little ones, and take upmy account
pi again.
Uniting cotton one pound" /
remember how much one pound
kItting-eOttOn seemed TO me then, for
in Virginia had learned from those
\ women to knit socks for our sol
rs. My mother had made us knit ia
r childhood for punishment. so knew
be stitch, but never understood the mys-
cry Of shaping a sock 90 tit until learn
u during the pleasant days NJ Culpep-
/ while my husband was Commissioning.
lund % a comfort TO keep my fingers
ng and my pound was soon exhausted
many more pounds exhausted before
end. At last became such an eX-
that l could knit sock day and
on the porch summer nights without
ing at it, and always kept a lot Of
Is on hand for hospitals and 20 give 20
lever needed them. When the Confed-
~ event up" had one sock finished
the other one OF the pair half done
IN my grief took such an aversion
hitting that let my needles rust i'm
unfinished one. Who could bear TO
when our army was scattered, our
pred and beloved Lee had surrendered
the grandest and hravest struggle
liberty ever recorded in history? We
Ow that God regns, that He dOeth
at He wills among the armies OF earth
Al OF heaven, and We accepted il as part
the 'all things" which we are taught
His word are 10 work together
good. But the needles
lst rust awhile, and years must pass
d blunt this keen suffering, ere we can
Ike up our knitting needles again, while
NJ ose which did duty for Coniederates
1ust bo buried away, with our other
owed relics.