Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans. A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. Edited by Rebecca Grant Sexton. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. Ephemeral nature of life, 11-12 Novelists styles, 21-22 All men and women must consider secession, 22 Rumor that she was going to marry a Republican, 25-26 Memorial of women on secession, Union as idol, rejects Unionist petition, 27-30 Alabama forts and others, 30-31 Under fire at Norfolk, wish she could have fired back, 33-34 Women and Confederacy, 36 Expected a short war after Manassas, Davis and cabinet too timid, 36 Soldiers, illnesses, medicine, 39 Henry Timrod, 40 Shiloh, 40 Beauregard, 41-45 Thomas R. R. Cobb's death, 48 J. L. M. Curry, defense of Mobile, 48-49 Fredericksburg, Thirty Years Wall, 49 Conscription, exemption, Yancey, 49-50 Disaffection, Confederate desertions, 49-50 Overseer exemption, and soldier opinion on slavery, 50 Beauregard and Jefferson Davis, Sterling Price, Joseph Johnston, 54-56 Novel, battle of Manassas, Marcaria 56, 59, 68, 89, 102-4 Kentucky campaign, Bragg, despotism, 62-65 Character of southern women and slavery, 65-67 Fall of Vicksburg, blames government, Joseph Johnston, Pemberton, 69 Beauregard, campaign plans, Joseph Johnston, Charleston, 72-76 Death of William Lowndes Yancey, 74 Defeat of J. L. M. Curry, reelection to Congress, 77-78 Universal suffrage and demagogism, 77-78 Beauregard, concentration strategy, 81-85 Need to repeal substitution and draft able-bodied clerks, conscription, 82-83 Confederate finance, money, 83 Bragg and dissension in western army, Beauregard, Johnston, Leonidas Polk, 83-84 Beauregard and Charleston, 89-91 Democracy and political principles, 91-92 Economics, property, patriotism, 92-93 Confederate financial legislation, 93 Admiral Buchanan, Mallory, naval defense, 93 Women traveling to mobile, 96-98 Women relief association for soldiers in Mobile, dinner, social life, 102-3 1 .