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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
t, and to add my small morsel of praise to the gallantry and patient endurance of the most bitter and maddening trials that men were ever called upon to endure. One unselfish action I would like to have recorded of a member of J. H. Morgan's command, the same to which my dear friend Colonel B. F. Forman belonged, and he can tell you how proud all Kentucky was of her brave boys. This is what I wish to write, because I like to have every noble deed recorded. After my good brother, Ex-Governor Blackman (who has administered medicine whenever I needed it), removed to Tennessee, and I felt the attack coming on from which I have so long and so severely suffered, I applied to Dr. R. Wilson Thompson for medical advice, and, receiving it, put my hand in my pocket. He said, almost sternly, No, no, Mrs. Morris, do not attempt that; you cannot do it, and, rising abruptly, left the house. Returning the second day, he said, I fear you did not understand me, Mrs. Morris: I feel as every Confe