In two short acts, DEAREST SISTER reveals what life was like for a young wife and mother, Laura Jackson Arnold, and her family in the little town of Beverly, VA/WV as battles raged around them during the Civil War. Years after the war, an older Laura tells of her brother s death, the success of her children and her rancorous divorce from Jonathan Arnold, as she and the family pack to leave the house that has been home for so many years.