Not dead! not dead! O my God! Gibbes is not dead!
Where — O dear God! Another?
Only a few days ago came a letter so cheerful and hopeful — we
have waited and prayed so patiently — at my feet lies one from Colonel Steadman
saying he is dead. Dead! Suddenly and without a moment's warning summoned to
God! No! it cannot be! I am mad! O God, have mercy on us! My poor mother! And
Lydia! Lydia! God comfort you! My brain seems afire. Am I mad? Not yet! God
would not take him yet! He will come again! Hush, God is good! Not dead! not
dead!
O Gibbes, come back to us!
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's
Diary, p. 426
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