Whether the course of events would have been altered if councils such as his had prevailed, no one can tell. The subject was never alluded to between us and our father. What was said and done on that occasion, and the substance of the resolutions that gave such offense, I know no more to this day than when the account in the journal was penned. It was probably his warmth in advocating this policy to “agree with the adversary quickly” lest a worse thing should befall us by delay, that led to his action at the public meeting referred to in the text. … Secessionists,” he used to call them, when angry or heated By contradiction, but more commonly, “the poor fools,” in a tone of half-pitying rebuke, just as he had spoken of them on that memorable night when the bells were ringing for the secession of his State. The War-time Journal of a Georgia girl 1864 dash 1865 by Eliza Frances Andrews However, it gives insight into Andrews reaction to the Lincoln Assassination and to his memorial on June 1, 1865. Her journal was heavily edited and published 40 years later. Her journal begins with her journey to Macon, Georgia in December 1864 to meet relatives with whom she would stay until the War ended. While her parents supported the Union, she and her three brothers supported the Confederacy. Her father was a prominent judge and planter. Excerpt from The War-time Journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865Įliza Frances Andrews was born in Washington, Georgia in 1840.
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