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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The death of Mrs. Greenhow. (search)
a gentleman of much learning, who filled the office of translator of several languages for the State Department of the old Government. Mrs. Greenhow had visited Europe to publish a book she had written on the war and her imprisonment by the Lincoln Government. --This she had accomplished, and was just returning to the Confederacy, when, on Saturday last, she met her death. The Wilmington Journal thus notices the event: "As we write — at half-past 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, October 1, 1864,--the corpse of Mrs. Rose A. Greenhow, a well known, and, we may add, a devoted Confederate lady, just returned from Europe, is laid out in the chapel of General Hospital No. 4. All the respect due to Mrs. Greenhow's position and character is, no doubt, paid to her remains by the ladies of the Soldiers' Aid Society, and, indeed, we may say, by the ladies generally. "Up to the time of writing, we have obtained few particulars. We know that, on Friday night or Saturday morning, the