1861 CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR DIARY. 16 Year Old Girl Courted by a Confederate Soldiers &c. Evangelical insomuch that ye life either

insomuch that ye life either of mother or baby was despair'd of

a Larger Quantity and Greater Variety

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1861 CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR DIARY. 16 Year Old Girl Courted by a Confederate Soldiers &c. Evangelical insomuch that ye life eitherA fascinating little peak into the intersection between normal life and military life among the Confederates of Virginia during the earliest days of the outbreak of the Civil War. It seems soldiers must have been regularly quartering in Rockbridge, perhaps as soldiers moved to and from Richmond. At least two different soldiers attempt to court our album owner, at least one at 16 years old [1863] and at least one at 17 [1864]. The present album, that