"[July 23 1861] Witnessed for the first time a military funeral. As that march came wailing up, they say Mrs. Bartow fainted. The empty saddle and the led war-horse---we saw and heard it all, and now it seems we are never out of the sound of the Dead March in Saul. It comes and it comes, until I feel inclined to close my ears and scream."
From Mary Boykin Chesnut's
A Diary from Dixie.
The War Through Women's Eyes
by Douglas Southall Freeman
Chapter VI of
The South to Posterity,1
1939.
[Publisher's Note, by Gene Kizer, Jr.
: This is a fascinating article in which I have inserted 11
illustrations, mostly photographs. There is much on Phoebe Pember, who
was born and raised in Charleston, and there are several dramatic
passages from A Diary from Dixie at the end of this post. The style of the citation, and content of each note, are Douglas Southall Freeman's, verbatim.
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