Unnamed Women in Civil War Jefferson

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Unnamed Women in Civil War Jefferson
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Unnamed Women in Civil War Jefferson
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According to Intruder in the Dust, old houses like Miss Habersham's "still seem to be spellbound by the shades of women, old women still spinsters and widows waiting . . . waiting for the slow telegraph to bring them news of Tennessee and Virginia and Pennsylvania battles" (117).