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America’s Civil War: September 1998 From the EditorArchives | 2 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Sadly, he never realized how close he had come to victory. Buck herself alluded to the lost moment when she told Mary Chestnut: “If he had been persistent, if he had not given way under Mamie’s [Mary's] violent refusal to listen to us, if he had asked me. When you refused to let anybody be married in your house–well, I would have gone down on the sidewalk, I would have married him on the pavement, if the parson could be found to do it. I was readyto leave all the world for him, to tie my clothes in a bundle, and like a soldier’s wife, trudge after to the ends of the earth. Does that sound like me? It was true that day.” In the end, “the Gallant Hood” had not been gallant enough. Roy Morris, Jr., Editor, America’s Civil War Subscribe Today
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2 Comments to “America’s Civil War: September 1998 From the Editor”
HAD TO LOOK THIS LADY UP SINCE THERE WAS MENTION OF HER ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL. NICE ARTICLE.
By GARY PRESTON on Jan 19, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Wow what an article, I also seen the bit on her on the History Channel and looked her up to make mention of her in my book I’m writing… Thanks for that extra light that is shone on her…
By Taevia Woolfolk on Jul 22, 2009 at 3:12 pm