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The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough - A Southern Woman's Memories of Richmond, VA and Washington, DC in the Civil War (Paperback)
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The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough - A Southern Woman's Memories of Richmond, VA and Washington, DC in the Civil War (Paperback)
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Margaret Cabell Brown's Recollections, written in 1911, provide a
woman's perspective on the Civil War. Born on a plantation in
Virginia, Margaret fell in love with "Henry" Loughborough, the son
of a prominent Washington family. They planned to be married, but
the Civil War intervened. Henry enlisted in the Confederate Army
while Margaret worked for the Confederate government in Richmond.
They married a year and a half later, but Henry kept fighting and
Margaret kept working. Near the end of the war, she moved to
Washington to live with Henry's family, thus experiencing life in
both wartime capitals. These Recollections are not about battle and
glory. To Margaret, war was an absent husband, office work, a
make-shift party dress, rampant inflation, food shortages,
malnutrition, a baby still-born, typhoid, limbless soldiers, death,
privation, loss, and pride. Her Recollections help in understanding
how those in the South viewed their cause, how they endured the
hardships of war, how brave they were as individuals, how misguided
they were as a group, how long they stayed in denial of the
inevitable, and, ultimately, why the South lost.
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