Stop being such a pea-wit.
In her mind, Annie was running, skirt hitched up, feet…
“Is this the same sister I had to pull out…
For the next few hours, Annie fell to helping Confederate…
Annie was sitting in the parlor of her father’s cousin,…
Annie didn’t stop to consider how dangerous warning the Confederates…
“They’re pulling in a Yule log the size of a…
Annie sat up, shaking all over. She forced her eyes…
“Steady, Angel, steady.”
“Interesting fowl they have around here,” said the man pointing…
“What are we going to do, Missus Miriam?” Isaac asked.
Annie and Miriam sat huddled together, reading two letters that…
Annie stopped to gaze up at the grand Greek revival…
“Oh, listen, listen, can you hear?” Eliza called out. “They’re…
It rained that night, great torrents, as if God had…
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow…
“After this round of warring right through my fields, I…
He was down there, General Stuart, down among the tents…
It was the night before New Year’s Eve, the dawn…
“They won’t be hauling you off, will they, Annie?” Her…
“Jamie, what in the world are you doing?” Annie grabbed…
A Confederate rider arrived carrying a letter from Laurence. He…
Annie stood among a grove of ferns that had been…
“It was terrible, Annie,” Laurence said quietly, describing a surprise…
“I hoped that our paths would cross again, Miss Sinclair.”
Robert E. Lee’s northern campaign did seem to break the…
It had been the worst possible news.
“I thought the children would like her.”
“Miss Annie! Miss Annie! Come quick! Lord have mercy! Miss…
“How bad is it, Laurence?” Annie hovered behind her brother…
Annie snuffed out her short candle and watched the smoke…
With morning came a visitor.
“Room change. Come this way.”
“What’s all the excitement?” Annie stood looking out the window…
There it was—home. But no longer her home. Annie pulled…
Jamie’s bitterness and his base condemnation of her haunted Annie…