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| | CV: Woman's Memories of the Sixties - Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers |
 | | The prospect for a speedy peace, of which we were so confident at the outset, having proved delusive, early in December I set out from Gonzales, Tex., to Join my husband at Bowling Green, Ky. Nor did we yet dream of a four years' war. |
 | | At this time, December, 1861, all of the ports on the Gulf Coast of Mexico were blockaded by the Federals, and I had to go by land. |
 | | Before I could reply to this letter I received a telegram from my husband, staling that he would be one of the military escort to accompany to New Orleans Gen. Johnston's remains, which would arrive on the next day, the 10th of April. |
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