The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.


Bits of Gossip (ed. 1904)

Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual...

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual...

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual...

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual...