Private Journal of Miss Eleanor Marie Caldwell
Caldwell Residence, Richmond, Virginia April 22nd, 1862

I am writing again.

I note this as a fact of some significance, because for the better part of a week I was not capable of it. I was not capable of a great many things I have always taken as constitutive of myself, and the experience of their absence is one I intend to record while I still have the clarity to do so accurately. I do not wish to soften this account. I want to know what happened to ...