Memories: The Guardian of the Heart
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THE NEED TO REMEMBER I must tell you what we were... I must tell you. What you were taught to believe is true. We were reckless. Arrogant. Proud. But in that precious time when you think on us with kindness, please, please remember also that we were brave, and bold, and true -- true to our code of honor and duty: True to the teachings of our fathers. Judge the Confederacy by the best among us. I call upon a magnificent man from the past -- the valiant Kentuckian, John Bell Hood. To understand us you must know General Hood and what he was to our lovingly remembered and longed for world. I shall tell you of the gallant Hood and those of us whose lives he changed. I shall tell you a story of l...
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The lovingly remembered and longed-for world of the Confederacy breathes new life in this story of the Kentuckian General John Bell Hood and his love for the Southern, blue-blooded Sarah Buchanan Campbell Preston. The Confederacy watched Hood’s quick rise to fame and glory in the telling battles that made him a Southern hero. Gaines Mill. Mary’s Heights. Gettysburg. Chickamauga. Atlanta. Tennessee. But it was in the Confederate capital that he found and courted his “Buckie,” seen by the romantic Confederates as the affair that captivated Richmond. Historians liken this love affair to the life of the Confederacy, but this story goes beyond what history has recorded to assure the reader that the general and his Buckie never lost their ideal love—just as the South never lost its love for the enchanting and seductive Confederacy.
About the Author
We left the University of Maryland and the heady world of being the number-one football team in the nation (my husband a coach) as well as the world of theater that I knew. Following my last role as Emily in the Arena Stage (Washington DC) production of Our Town, we moved to the South of the sixties. At the time I thought we had come to the edge of the earth. To try to understand and appreciate this new and strange world, it was necessary to know the past. What happened to make the South the way it was? I had to know the stories! The Southerner saw me as an outsider, and it was hard for them to share their secrets. However, a background in Literature/Theatre(MA)…professional theater…producer/hostess for SCETV evening programming…raising four children in a politically active family…ultimately gave me insight and learned courage to write my own conclusions about South Carolina’s intriguing past. In what can only be a Southern story, Memories is the South as I see it.