Reminiscences of a soldier's wife

15–16 December 1864

Battle of Nashville

UEVE THOMAS — BATTLE OF NASHVILLE — LOGAN MAGNAN-

CHRISTMAS AT CARBONDALE — GENERAL LOGAN ORDERED TO RE- UEVE THOMAS — BATTLE OF NASHVILLE — LOGAN MAGNAN- IMOUSLY RETURNS TO HIS CORPS — THE MARCH THROUGH THE CAROUNAS — GOLDSBORO AND BENTONVILLE — FALL OF PE- TERSBURG .AND, RICHMOND — ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN — lee's surrender — LOGAN REINSTATED IN COMMAND OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — GRAND REVIEW OF THE UNION ARMY AT WASHINGTON — RETURN HOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS — BIRTH OF JOHN A. LOGAN, JR. — RESIGNATION OF GENERAL LOGAN — ELECTED CONGRESSMAN- AT-LARGE — A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE OVER THE EARLY SIXTIES — DEATH OF MY MOTHER .... 183

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I had come to look upon the horrors of war with something akin to terror. Diuing the sieges of Forts Henry and Donel- son, Shiloh, Nashville, Corinth, and all the battles from Memphis to Vicksburg, and during the capture of that strong- hold, so many brave men had fallen and so many widows and orphans were all around us, constantly appealing to our sympathies, that we had no respite. That ''Hope long de- ferred maketh the heart sick " was experienced daily. It took

LIEVE THOMAS — BATTLE OF NASHVILLE — LOGAN MAGNAN-

CHRISTMAS AT CASBONDALE — GENERAL LOGAN ORDERED TO RE- LIEVE THOMAS — BATTLE OF NASHVILLE — LOGAN MAGNAN- IMOUSLY RETURNS TO HIS CORPS — THE MARCH THROUGH THE CAROLINAS — GOLDSBORO AND BENTONVILLE — FALL OF PE- TERSBURG AND RICHMOND — ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN — LEE'S SURRENDER — LOGAN REINSTATED IN COMMAND OF ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE — GRAND REVIEW OF THE UNION ARMY AT WASHINGTON — RETURN HOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS — BIRTH OF JOHN A. LOGAN, JR. — RESIGNATION OF GENERAL LOGAN — ELECTED CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE — A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE OVER THE EARLY SIXTIES — DEATH OF MY MOTHER

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General Logan, receiving at Louisville the news of the battle of Nashville, at once sent to General Grant the