 Well, that agony is over. Like David, when the child was dead, I will get up from my knees, will wash my face and comb my hair. No hope; we will try to have no fear.  A Diary from Dixie - Página 326de Mary Boykin Chesnut - 1905 - 424 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Richard J. Jensen, John C. Hammerback - 1987 - 330 páginas
...peace movement gained momentum. After Sherman captured Atlanta on September 2, Chestnut wrote: "Atlanta is gone. Well that agony is over. Like David, when...from my knees, will wash my face and comb my hair. There is no 51. BG Wright to Benjamin and Elizabeth Wright. August 18, 1862. Wright Family Papers.... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 páginas
...ist, 1864. The battle is raging at Atlanta, our fate hanging in the balance. September 2nd. Atlanta is gone. Well, that agony is over. Like David, when...from my knees, will wash my face and comb my hair. There is no hope, but we will try to have no fear. . . . May 2nd, 1865. I am writing from the roadside... | |
 | Mary A. DeCredico - 1996 - 196 páginas
...[and] our fate hang[s] in the balance." But in the next breath, she conceded that Atlanta had fallen. "Well — that agony is over. Like David when the...knees, will wash my face and comb my hair. No hope," Mary concluded, "We will try to have no fear." After Atlanta's fall, Mary, as well as others in the... | |
 | John Waugh - 2009 - 478 páginas
...diarist in Charleston, it looked worse than that. She wrote in her diary, "Atlanta gone. Well—that agony is over. Like David when the child was dead,...comb my hair. No hope. We will try to have no fear." 15 For seven days after he was nominated in Chicago, and while Atlanta was falling, there was only... | |
 | Mark Grimsley, Brooks D. Simpson - 2002 - 220 páginas
...they know not whither. Lord, how long must we suffer such things?"28 Mary Chesnut concluded, "Atlanta gone. Well — that agony is over. Like David when...from my knees, will wash my face and comb my hair. No hope."2-' On being told that Atlanta was lost, Mary Ann Harris Gay recalled: "Dumbfounded we stood,... | |
 | Carmine Sarracino - 2004 - 52 páginas
...Atlanta crumbling to blackened chimneys. She drops her knitting, lets slip her shawl to the floor. Like David, when the child was dead, I will get up...from my knees. Will wash my face and comb my hair. Day ofjubilo i. Thursdays was the whipping day. They lined and caned us slaves no matter we done wrong... | |
 | Phillip H. McMath - 2007 - 534 páginas
...of victory into the drifting smoke of all lost hopes. Mary Chesnut diaried upon the news: "Atlanta gone. Well that agony is over. Like David when the...comb my hair. No hope. We will try to have no fear." Yet the fearless fought on: as on September 19, Price, Fagan, Marmaduke, Cabell, Shelby, and Dagmar... | |
 | Carmine Sarracino - 2008 - 84 páginas
...chimney stacks. Ah, then, that agony is over. She drops her knitting. Lets slip her shawl to the floor. Like David, when the child was dead, I will get up...from my knees. Will wash my face and comb my hair. Thursdays was the whipping day. They lined and caned us slaves no matter we done wrong or not. So come... | |
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