:19:23
Mother?
:19:27
I was able to secure the aid
of a good spyglass...
:19:30
...and could ascertain beyond all doubt
that our house is still standing.
:19:38
Oh, I pray to God
for Martha and her dear ones.
:19:41
But, Mother...
:19:44
...it is a pitiful sight on the fields
below Marye's Heights.
:19:47
I should feel rancor in my heart
for those invaders...
:19:51
...but all I feel for them is sorrow.
:19:56
Dear Lucy...
:19:58
...when you were
but a child in petticoats...
:20:01
...I believe the year was 1847...
:20:04
...there was a great famine in Ireland.
:20:08
Those fields below the Heights
were covered...
:20:10
...with the finest crop of corn
ever raised in this section.
:20:14
The greater part of it was sent
as a donation to the starving Irish.
:20:20
I cannot help thinking...
:20:22
...but that it helped to feed
the poor victims of the Irish brigade...
:20:26
...who fell on this very field today.
:20:52
General Gregg.
:20:54
General Jackson.
:20:57
I wish to apologize...