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The commander of a Georgia regiment through much of the Civil War mused later in his memoirs that the heaviest burden fell not upon the man at the front, but upon the woman who waited and prayed for victory: "While the men were carried away with the drunkenness of the war, she dwelt in the stillness of her desolate home." Sallie Brock Putnam spoke for Southern womanhood. She was a native of Madison County, Virginia, and seems to have come from a family of good social standing. Her biographical information is sketchy: Though several sources suggest 1845 as her birth date, there is convincing evidence that she was bom in 1828. She received her education from tutors and from her father, who taught for a time at the University of Virginia. In 1858 the Brock family moved to Richmond. There, three years later, Sallie Brock saw the first Confederate flag raised above the capitol. "The excitement was beyond description," she wrote, "the satisfaction unparalleled." But the thrill soon faded as the War made itself felt in the Confederate capital. She wrote Richmond during the War when her memory was fresh and vivid. The book contains an unexpectedly full history of the Civil War; the author exhibits a strong grasp of strategy and tactics. But at its heart is an incisive eyewitness account of life in a capital that was swollen to four times its normal population by the exigencies of war. Brock's descriptions of Jefferson Davis' inauguration and the Richmond Bread Riot of 1863 are dramatic, but no more so than her accounts of nameless refugees, race relations, opportunistic merchants and blockade runners. Confederate prisons and family matters. In contrast to other female Southern writers of the period, she was more sober and factual, less gossipy and speculative. She wrote with shrewdness and maturity, and with a remarkable lack of self-pity and exaggeration. Yet the reader cannot miss her courage, sacrifice and suffering. Sallie Brock Putnam died in 1911.
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