Prominent Women of Texas Author:Elizabeth Brooks Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XV. MHS. A. V. WINKLER —MRS. M. E. WH1TTEN —MISS SUSANNA PDÍCKNEY—MRS. MARY MITCHEL BROWN —MRS. FANNY CHAMBERS GOOCH —MRS. ELLA WILLMAN. Mrs.... more » A. V. Winkler isa Virginian by birth, her father John Walton and her mother Elizabeth Täte Smith were of English descent, her father a direct heir of Lady Mary Hamilton of Manchester, England. She was educated in the Richmond Female Institute and in 1864, became the wife of Lieutenant Colonel Winkler of the Fourth Texas Regiment, who shared the fortunes and misfortunes of Hood's Texas Brigade. His services were conspicuous in all the great battles of Virginia, and ended with the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. Mrs. Winkler was in Richmond during the war, and had an excellent opportunity to observe the stirring events of those unhappy days. The scenes she witnessed and Hood's famous brigade play an important part in the interesting history she has recently published of her personal reminiscences. This book has been favorably received. The author has told her story well, and has emphasized her strong and leadingpoints with admirably selected extracts from newspaper and official reports, weaving the whole together so skillfully that interest never flags. Mrs. Winkler has contributed popular articles to the Southern Illustrated News and Magnolia, published in Richmond, Virginia. For three years she edited a literary magazine, Corsicana Prairie Flower, and is at present associate editor and business manager of the Bound Table, a monthly magazine published in Texas. The newspapers and magazines of this and other Southern States have received valuable contributions from her gifted pen. A lady of rare accomplishments, it has been well said that by her "culture (101) and literary attainments she has woven from the...« less