The widow of the Confederate general George E. Pickett recalls her Virginia girlhood, her courtship by the soldier she calls simply My Soldier, the first Confederate currency, the warship Virginia, Richmond after Seven Pines and the care of her wounded husband. Her picture of plantation life and slavery is the nostalgic one of the postwar South, and historians read her recollections with caution.
A florid, revealing document of how the Confederacy’s widows chose to remember the war. Download the free EPUB.