"Our One Common Country" author talk in Stratford, CT

[Eva Elisabeth]

...or her letter is lost to history (seems more likely IMO).

My opinion, too! I find it anyway amazing so many of Mary's letters survived. I'd like to throw in another argument in favor of Mary: the way she reacted to one Confederate brother's death (she refused to weep, called him an enemy against hers and the Union cause etc., could post the quote tonight).