CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: HOW FANCIES AND TASTES CHANGE - Smith County, TX
 
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Submitted by James H. Douglas   JimRedWing@aol.com  
14 October 2001 
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg.386. 

This is an old story, but as it may apply to some Texas who donned the 
gray and went to the war, it is copied in these pages. While rummaging 
through the drawers of a bookcase in her daughter's room in search of 
some writing paper the other day, Mrs. Wimberling came upon a bundle 
of letters tied with a pink ribbon and emitting a faint perfume.  Then 
she picked them up, went downstairs, and confronted her daughter.  
"Eunice," she said in a high state of indignation, "who is the idiot 
that you're corresponding with, I'd like to know?  Of all the love-sick 
trash I ever saw, this is absolutely the worst.  I shall consider it my 
duty to report this to your father if this thing goes any farther.  Who 
wrote these letters?"  "I am not going to lie to you about them, mamma," 
said Miss Eunice serenely.  "If you will put on your glasses and look at 
them again, you will find that they're a lot of old letters papa wrote 
to you when you were a girl."