Miss Conway Escapes

A cousin of ours, Miss Mildred Conway (daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Conway of Falmouth, a mile above us on the Rappahannock) had recently married Professor Francis A. March of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., and was on a visit to her parents when trouble arose against her getting back North through the lines. In order to effect this it became in some way necessary or safest for my father to get the train stopped for her on our side of the river near PineGrove, instead of her getting on at the depot over in town. And in that way we helped her off. Her brother, Peter V. Conway, was with her in his Confederate uniform but could go no further than to see her off at Acquia Creek on the boat for Washington probably -- and about the last trip it made, I reckon.

She was certainly one nervous distressed lady leaving her Virginia kindred in arms against her husband's people in the North, but they lived to see the trouble all ironed out and to raise a distinguished progeny for service to a reunited country in the next greatest war. [3]