 | Myrta Lockett Avary - Reconstruction - 1906 - 530 pages
...in prison, of another she could not hear if he were living or dead; her house had been burned ; her young daughter, turned out with her in the night,...can't be sorry. I believe it was the vengeance of the Lord.' " Jefferson Davis heard of Lincoln's death in Charlotte. A tablet in that beautiful and historic... | |
 | Myrta Lockett Avary - Reconstruction - 1906 - 524 pages
...in prison, of another she could not hear if he were living or dead; her house had been burned ; her young daughter, turned out with her in the night,...can't be sorry. I believe it was the vengeance of the Lord.' " Jefferson Davis heard of Lincoln's death in Charlotte. A tablet in that beautiful and historic... | |
 | Marilyn Mayer Culpepper - Social Science - 2002 - 380 pages
...thank God!'" The next day, however, she apparently had second thoughts. "'I have prayed it all out in my heart,'" she said, "'that is, I'm not glad. But...can't be sorry. I believe it was the vengeance of the Lord.'"61 Northerners, naturally, took a dim view of Southerners in their midst or in occupied areas... | |
 | Thomas Goodrich - History - 2005 - 386 pages
...in prison, of another she could not hear if he were living or dead; her house had been burned; her young daughter, turned out with her in the night,...in, crying: "Lincoln has been killed! Thank God!" I'm not glad. But, somehow, I can't be sorry. I believe it was the vengeance of the Lord.6 "We were... | |
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I remember how one poor woman took the news. She was half-crazed by her losses and troubles; one son had been killed in battle, another had died in prison, of another she could not hear if he were living or dead; her house had been burned ; her young... 