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the Confederacy, and the Confederate soldier, that she never fail-
ed to administer to the wounded and comfort the dying. She
would not enter in any social gatherings during the war, but
devoted her time and that of her servants to preparing lint ban-
dages, knitting socks and sending them to the soldiers.

At one time when I was a prisoner of war, General McGruder
gave a ball in Washington, Hempstead county, Arkansas, and
sent a special invitation to Mrs. Cabell to attend. She wrote
him a very polite note declining, stating that he had better look
after the comfort of nearly two hundred badly wounded soldiers
of Cabell's Brigade; and take the money to be expended at the
ball and buy condiments and other necessaries for the comforts
of the wounded and dying; that she would devote all her time
to the sick and wounded soldier until her husband returned, if
it was to the day of her death.

Those were the sentiments that made her beloved by the
Confederate soldier. She was a woman of great firmness, as
brave as a lion, and at the same time as gentle as a lamb. No

one knew her but to love her. She belonged to a number of char-
itable associations and was always doing good in her home in
Arkansas and her home in Texas. So much was she beloved by
the Arkansas soldiers that they would cheer her on all public
occasions whenever she made her appearance.

She died on the 16th of April, 1887, while on a visit to her
friends and relatives in Arkansas. She was brought back and
buried in the cemetery in Dallas, Texas, in the presence of two-
thirds of the citizens of Dallas. She was laid gently in her tomb

covered with flowers. Her children have erected a monument

over the grave and on one side is engraved in beautiful letters

the name "Shingo" Cabell."
Your friend,
W. L. OABEIiL

DID IT HERSELF.

An incident was related to the writer in 1863 at Fort Smith,

where Mrs. Cabell had her home, which illustrates her strength
of character and her ready wit. General Cabell was reported to
be very sick at Clarksville, Ark. Some ladies went to her one
day and said: "Oh, Mrs. Cabell, we have heard some awful