While praying for the return of those who have fought so nobly for us, how I have dreaded their first days at home! Since the boys died, I ...

No. 19 Dauphine St. – One year ago, in my little room in the Camp Street house, I sat shivering over Tennyson and my desk, selfishly rejoic...

Dead! Dead! Both dead! O my brothers! What have we lived for except you? We, who would have so gladly laid down our lives for yours, are le...

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 hop...

Our distress about Gibbes has been somewhat relieved by good news from Jimmy. The jolliest sailor letter from him came this morning, dated ...

A report has just reached us that my poor dear Gibbes has been taken prisoner along with the rest of Hayes's brigade. SOURCE: Sa...

Yes! It is so, if his own handwriting is any proof. Mr. Appleton has just sent Brother a letter he had received from Gibbes, asking him to ...

Another odd link of the old, stale story has come to me, all the way from New York. A friend of mine, who went on the same boat with the pr...

I have learned more. He has not yet left; part of the mystery is unraveled, only I have neither patience nor desire to seek for more. These...

I consider myself outrageously imposed upon! I am so indignant that I have spent a whole evening making faces at myself. “Please, Miss Sara...

It is bad policy to keep us from seeing the prisoners; it just sets us wild about them. Put a creature you don't care for in the least,...

It may be wrong; I feel very contrite; but still I cannot help thinking it is an error on the right side. It began by Miriam sending Mr. Co...

It is but too true; both have fallen. All Port Hudson privates have been paroled, and the officers sent here for exchange. Aye! Aye! I know...

O praise the Lord, O my soul! Here is good news enough to make me happy for a month! Brother is so good about that! Every time he hears goo...

I must write something somewhere, I don't care if dinner is ready, and Brother's “safe old Secesh” downstairs! Lydia has another bo...