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It's July 23rd, 1864 in Baltimore, Maryland. Emily Hoffman sits in a parlor at her parents

mansion on West Franklin Street. Although Emily is a loyal unionist, her family supports

the Confederacy. In fact, her younger brother, Don DeGrey Uniformen, went off toward just

last year. Emily's pro-union leanings bother her family, but her engagement to an up-and-coming

federal army officer drove the wedge even deeper. Still, the 30-year-old blonde-haired woman

remains true to her cause and to her fiance.

In the late afternoon, there's a knock on the door. Emily's stomach knots, as her mother

answers it, with a brother and a bow on the battlefield, Emily dreads any telegram.

So she's surprised when her mother glances at the telegram nods and hands it to her sane

tursely. Here at last is some good news.

Her blue eyes fill with tears as the young woman reads, to Mrs. Samuel Hoffman Franklin Street.

General Barry desires me to say that General McPherson was killed in battle yesterday. His

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