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Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front, and
no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her
richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to
Dorothea Dix's appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge
from a Northern noncombatant. Daly was the wife of a prominent New
York City judge whose connections allowed her to meet many major
figures involved in Northern military and diplomatic strategy.
Despite catty comments about Mrs. Lincoln and less-than-flattering
appraisals of Union generalship, Daly could be sympathetic toward
the suffering of the soldiers. She noted the fear with which many
viewed the draft, seeing it as a terrible incursion on liberty, but
she understood that the times called for severe measures.
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