Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a widow, her soldier, and their story
  • Virginia, Illinois, and West Point, 1825-1846: perilous years
  • Mexico, 1846-1848: streams of heroes
  • Texas, 1848-1855: the buoyancy of youth is past
  • Washington territory, 1855-1858: farther than the end of the world
  • San Juan and Southern Secession, 1853-1861: the most trying circumstances
  • Virginia, 1861-1862: war meant something more
  • Virginia, 1862: shaking with the thunders of the battle
  • Virginia, 1863: carpet-knight doings on the field
  • Pennsylvania, 1863: with all this much to lose
  • North Carolina, 1863-1864: you will hardly ever go back there again
  • Virginia, 1864-1865: is that man still with this army?
  • Canada, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., 1865-1889: we have suffered enough
  • Washington, D.D., 1887-1931: I have had all and lost all.