Private Journal of Miss Eleanor Marie Caldwell
Caldwell Residence, Richmond, Virginia

March 15th, 1862

I do not know how long I sat in that room after he told me. The window faced east, and by the time I walked out of that hospital — on my own two legs, which is a circumstance I find I cannot yet properly credit — the light had moved entirely. Whether I walked quickly or slowly I cannot account for. I have a poor record of the interval.

He told me I would not die.

He was very punctilious with that ...