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A Silence After Trumpets: The Story of Sarah Buchanan Preston
A Silence After Trumpets The Story of Sarah Buchanan Preston Author:Frances Herman Jackson, Mary McNease Kinard Sarah Buchanan (Buck) Preston was the reigning belle of both her native Columbia and of Richmond, where her father was stationed at various times during the Civil War. As a member of the prestigious Hampton-Preston clan, a first cousin of General and later Governor Wade Hampton, and a friend of Confederate diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut, Buck, alon... more »g with her sisters, Mamie and Tudie, were at the center of events in both cities, and an account of her life involves persons who were influential in both political and military circles in the Confederate capital, including General John Bell Hood, to whom she was engaged. (An extensive genealogical chart is included.)« less
A interesting story of a beautiful girl who was the femme fatale of the Confederacy -- Buck Preston....The story catches and holds you to the end, a nice love story.