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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
sweetest music. Stopping beside some sparkling spring to lunch and dine, chatting gayly all day, growing thoughtful and silent, as, borne upon the breeze of evening, there came to us the whispering voices of memory, renewing the sorrow of parting, awakening afresh anxious fears for the absent. We slept at any house along the road where night overtook us, always expecting and finding a welcome. In these homes, as everywhere else over the South, sorrow and care had taken up their abode. Haggard, weary-looking women, from whose hearts and homes joy had departed with the dear ones who had gone forth to battle, plied us with eager questions. We related to them all we knew of military movements. But it was very little, and we could give them no tidings of their own. The third day brought us to Marion, where, at the pleasant home of Mrs. McAllister, we awaited further orders. I have very pleasant recollections of Marion, and of the elegant homes where I was so delightfully ent