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Reminiscences
of
Peace and War
BY
MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR
AUTHOR OF "THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON AND HER TIMES"
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1904, 1905,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904. ReprintedDecember, 1904; March, 1905.
New edition, with additions, September, 1905; April, 1908.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO THE MEMORY OF
My Son
WILLIAM RICE PRYOR, M.D.
WHO GAVE TO SUFFERING HUMANITY ALL THAT
GOD HAD GIVEN HIM
Preface
It will be obvious to the reader that this bookaffects neither the "dignity of history" nor theauthority of political instruction. The causes whichprecipitated the conflict between the sections andthe momentous events which attended the strugglehave been recounted by writers competent to thetask. But descriptions of battles and civil convulsionsdo not exhibit the full condition of the Southin the crisis. To complete the picture, social characteristicsand incidents of private life are indispensablelineaments. It occurs to the author thata plain and unambitious narrative of her recollectionsof Washington society during the calm whichpreceded the storm, and of Virginia under theafflictions and sorrows of the fratricidal strife, willnot be without interest in the retrospect of thatmemorable era. The present volume recalls thatera in the aspect in which it appeared to a womanrather than as it appeared to a statesman or aphilosopher.
ROGER A. PRYOR.
Contents
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