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Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an immediate classic upon its publication. Critics and viewers alike fell in deep love with the speech of ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden, among the many enjoyable and loquacious heoines in National literature.Lucy hitched at the turn of the final millennium, when she was fifteen and her spouse was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy turned a "veteran of the veteran" with a distinctive viewpoint on Southern member and Southern heritage. Everything is encompassed by her story from the sad demise of the Confederate child gift towards the narrator is everyday fights in your home--filled with appointments from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.