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Emily Alsop Power, Nannie Alsop Braxton, and Elizabeth Alson Wynne, c 1862
Hoping to recall "some of our old songs" when the war was over, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth Alsop recorded The Southern Waggon in her journal. These three sisters may have joined together in singing "our cause is just and holy, our men are brave and true, to whip the Lincoln cut throats is all we have to do." As a young woman in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Elizabeth and her family endured the uncertainties of war and Union occupation. |