1865 July 4, Lookout Mountain, to Dear Cousin

This is useful only if Fanny is the Frances who taught sick soldiers in Germantown: For more information about women’s charitable efforts during the Civil War, see Rachel Filene Seidman’s “‘We Were Enlisted for the War’: Ladies’ Aid Societies and the Politics of Women’s Work During the Civil War,” in William Blair and William Pencak’s Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War (University Park, PA: Penn State University, 2001) . Germantown is the site of the Cope family enclave Awbury; many Copes and cousins of the Copes there. Chattanooga lies at the foot of Lookout Mountain. The Battle of Chickamauga, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, took place outside the city in 1863. Greenville, Tennessee, is located about 20 miles outside Nashville .