Quotation by Elizabeth Blair Lee

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday—even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued ...
Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818–?), U.S. housewife. Wartime Washington, letter dated October 15, 1863 (1991).

Born in Kentucky, Lee later lived in Maryland and in Washington, D.C., with her husband and child. Her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee, was a Union naval commander in the Civil War.
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