Existing comment:
"Our Lady Thompson never deserted her house... All her clothes and bedding, except those on her person, were used in dressing the wounded and her carpets in wrapping the dead for burial. An empty stone house and fenceless yard were all that was left the widow of seventy years."
-- Catherine Foster, resident of Gettysburg
In her claim for damages made after the war, besides the obvious exterior damage, Mrs. Thompson states the loss of pillow cases, bolsters, sheets, blankets, cotton rags, wearing apparel, and 18 yards of cotton (ingrain) carpet. |