The War Through Women’s Eyes, Part I

“[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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