As the days turn colder, southern concern for soldiers’ health grows. Soldiers are anxious about illness in their midst, while family and friends on the home front fret about disease and illness among loved one. As Confederate soldiers serve far from homes and hearths and suffer travails, patriotic appeals for assistance from residents in the…
“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…
James Burrell Jones’ second son is born tonight, the day before eighteen-year old Jones marches off to war, leaving his teenage wife to raise two children and tend their south Georgia farm. She “did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved…