With Union troops literally in their backyard, two southern women of privilege recorded in their diaries the fall of the south in the last months of the America

With Union troops literally in their backyard, two southern women of privilege recorded in their diaries the fall of the south in the last months of the America

"C. H. Ruffin, of Nash Co., wounded yesterday. Dies in my arms—in perfect peace. Charlie enlisted at 17, and, perhaps, was the wildest boy in his Regiment." S

She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America." From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to r