One day in late September, Dick came to Bettie reporting that he had found a wounded Union soldier in a farmhouse half a mile away from the Van Metre home. When talking about her first sight of the man in the blood-spotted blue uniform, she always used the same words. “It was like...
I nearly cried. Perhaps the pains of a44life don’t ever completely disappear, I thought sadly. As my child looked up at me waiting to know whether she could take her time, I knew I had a choice. I could sit there in so...
One day in late September, Dick came to Bettie reporting that he had found a wounded Union soldier in a farmhouse half a mile away from the Van Metre home. When talking about her first sight of the man in the blood-spotted blue uniform, she always used the same words. “It was like...