News has come that Lee's army has surrendered! We are struck
dumb with astonishment! Why then all these four years of suffering — of
separations — of horror — of blood — of havoc — of awful bereavement! Why these
ruined homes — these broken family circles — these scenes of terror that must
scathe the brain of those who witnessed them till their dying day! Why is our
dear Willy in his uncoffined grave? Why poor Frank to go through life with one
arm? Is it wholly and forever in vain? God only knows!
SOURCE: Elizabeth Preston Allan, The Life and
Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston, p. 207-8
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