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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
afterwards during a spell of fever which lasted a week, I was cordially received and elegantly entertained at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Russell, who lived about ten miles from Ringgold. This aged couple were eminently and most intelligently patriotMrs. Russell, who lived about ten miles from Ringgold. This aged couple were eminently and most intelligently patriotic. Their sons were in the Confederate service. Their time and their substance were literally at the disposal of all who served the cause. The silver-haired mother knitted and spun incessantly for the soldiers. The father superintended the raiebbe somebody will do as much for mine when he needs it. About seven miles from Ringgold, Georgia, lived an old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Russell, who, although ardently loving the cause, were too old and feeble to serve it otherwise than by their uncMrs. Russell, who, although ardently loving the cause, were too old and feeble to serve it otherwise than by their unceasing prayers, and by giving freely of their substance to sustain the patients at the hospitals then established at Ringgold. Their daughter, Miss Phemie, a beautiful young girl, was never weary of conferring benefits upon the Southern soldiers; ev