Novelist Martha Caroline
Keller, author of “Love and Rebellion”, described a pair of Confederates she believed
to have been at Gettysburg. One of them, “a dreaming boy who fought with tiger
fierceness,” lay beside an older soldier. Instead of sleeping, “this strong,
manly warrior” remained awake to “guard the resting youth.”
Their comrades
considered them to be father and son. Actually, Kelly wrote, “This fair young
soldier is the man’s wife.
That account is
undocumented, but similar stories are buried in records of both Confederate and
Federal forces.
