Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it. . . They are too … - Mary Boykin Chesnut

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The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it. . . They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Fallen, Heart, Lost, Richmond, War, Writing

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There is no slave, after all, like a wife. . . Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

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We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

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We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate. . . Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.

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Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

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I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Dwell, Hear, House, See, Want, Writing

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