"Witnessed for the first time a military funeral. As that march came
wailing up, they say Mrs. Bartow fainted. The empty saddle and the led
war-horse —we saw and heard it all, and now it seems we are never out of
the sound of the Dead March in Saul. It comes and it comes, until I
feel inclined to close my ears and scream."
-- Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie
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