Military Units at the Arsenal on July 7, 1865

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I agree with Betty. From what several of her descendants have told me, she suffered from "nerves" most of her life - and I think we can all see why after what she endured at a young age (22 in an era when 22-year-olds had not been exposed to worldly conflicts). One of the descendants was her great-grandson, whose grandfather had nursed his mother in later years when she suffered from renal failure. Absolutely no mention, however, of insanity -- and this descendant was of the modern age when the illness was discussed more readily.

From the descriptions that I have seen of the suffering she went through on the last day of her mother's life, however, I can see where someone might think that she went crazy - and stayed that way.