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Book I, pgs. 1-22

• Lucy Marsden is the widow of the last surviving soldier of the Civil War.

• Lucy thinks of the death of her husband, Will, and how she likes how quiet the house is now.

• In the present, Lucy is ninety-nine years old and lives in a rest home where people come to see her to hear her stories as the oldest living Confederate widow.

• Lucy tells the story of the death of her husband's friend, Ned Smythe, at Appomattox.

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• Ned was shot while swimming and drowned; Will tried to save him but he was already dead.

• All of Lucy's children are now dead, as she has outlived them all.

• Will hardened after Ned's death and he walked all the way home after the end of the war.

• Will and his mother were forced to stay in rented rooms since their farm, The Lilacs, had been...

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