June 15th.
Our Confederacy has gone with one crash — the report of the pistol fired at Lincoln.
THE END
Reading this for the first time, in all these many years, I wish to bear record that God never failed me, through stranger vicissitudes than I ever dared record. Whatever the anguish, whatever the extremity, in His own good time He ever delivered me. So that I bless Him to-day for all of life’s joys and sorrows — for all He gave — for all He has taken —and I bear witness that it was all Very Good.
Sarah Morgan Dawson.
July 23d, 1896.
Charleston,
South Carolina.