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" This is a dreadful war, to make even the hearts of women so bitter! I hardly know myself these last few weeks. I, who have such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self-defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer... "
A Confederate Girl's Diary - Page 24
by Sarah Morgan Dawson - 1913 - 439 pages
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman

Sarah Morgan Dawson - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 693 pages
...the man who dares attempt it — well! a pistol in my pocket will f1ll up the gap. I am capable, too. This is a dreadful war to make even the hearts of...such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer is to have them sent...
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The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...the man who dares attempt it — well! a pistol in my pocket will fill up the gap. I am capable, too. This is a dreadful war to make even the hearts of...such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer is to have them sent...
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The Confederate Belle

Giselle Roberts - History - 2003 - 264 pages
...later, she was shocked by her transformation from a genteel young lady into a bloodthirsty Confederate. "I, who have such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer is to have them sent...
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The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with ...

Sarah Morgan Dawson, Francis Warrington Dawson - History - 2004 - 352 pages
...Sarah was perturbed by her transformation from a genteel young lady into a bloodthirsty Confederate. "I, who have such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer is to have them sent...
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Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South

Anya Jabour - Social Science - 2009 - 384 pages
...Yankees even more than they abhorred violence. "This is a dreadful war," she reflected in May 1862, "to make even the hearts of women so bitter! I hardly...such a horror of bloodshed, consider even killing in self defense murder, who cannot wish them the slightest evil, whose only prayer is to have them sent...
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