Reveille in Washington, 1860 - 1865 by Margaret Leech

[Eva Elisabeth]

@David - Nope, David, I'm afraid this counter-counter doesn't work.
"Was to be" is past tense, not predictable by humans, and the Bible itself states so:
"...also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." (Ecclesiastes 3)
Or, as Lincoln quoted to Herndon from Hamlet:
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will."