"Well sir, She didn't Scare a Bit!"

John Hartwell

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Gen. Henry Heth recalls an incident during the Weldon Railroad fight:
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[Boston Herald, May 30, 1897]
 
Missed this thread! She makes me smile and I wish we'd run into who she was? You know, for all the fainting of heroines in novels I'm not sure how many women really did panic, or would have shown it when they were upset. We're so inured to allowing ourselves the luxury of making the world a gift of every, single emotion flitting across our minds we forget it was once considered terribly ' ill bred '. You just didn't.

Shaking her fist, now that was eloquent to the occasion.
 
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