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[ Linwood, Louisiana ], September 2Oth, Saturday. [1862]
General Carter has just received a letter from Lydia, which contains what to me is the most melancholy intelligence the news of the death of Eugene Fowler, who was killed on the 22d of August, in some battle or skirmish in Virginia. Poor Eugene! . . . Does it not seem that this war will sweep off all who are nearest and dearest, as well as most worthy of life, leaving only those you least care for, unharmed?
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- Sarah Dawson
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- A Confederate Girls Diary, Dawson, Sarah Morgan 1842-1909, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1913
