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America’s Civil War: July 1999 From the EditorArchives | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Back home in Mobile, Sue Tarleton waited anxiously for word from–or of–her lover. Union raiding parties had cut all telegraph lines into the city. Six days after the Battle of Franklin, she was walking in her garden when she heard a passing newsboy shout: “Big battle near Franklin, Tennessee! General Cleburne killed! Read all about it.” She fainted dead away. Subscribe Today
After spending a year confined to her bedroom in “deepest mourning,” Susan Tarleton reluctantly re-entered the world. In 1867 she married Captain Hugh L. Cole, a former Confederate officer and an old college friend of her brother’s. Less than a year into the marriage, she died unexpectedly of “an effusion of the brain.” Roy Morris, Jr., Editor, America’s Civil War Pages: 1 2 Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
           
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