Sarah Morgan Dawson’s diary, 1865

"All things are taken from us, and become portions and parcels of the dreadful pasts."... Thursday the 13th came the dreadful tidings of the surrender of Lee and…

To see a whole city draped in mourning is certainly an imposing spectacle, and becomes almost grand when it is considered as an expression of universal affliction.…

While praying for the return of those who have fought so nobly for us, how I have dreaded their first days at home! Since the boys died, I have constantly thought…

Our Confederacy has gone with one crash—the report of the pistol fired at Lincoln.