Thought I'd share a letter my GGReat Grand Mother wrote to her mother, dated 1865. Her husband, who was from Baltimore, was a surgeon in the Union Army....until the Union Army burnt their plantation to the ground. They moved to Texas where he joined the Confederate Army, the Texas Long Rifles at San Antonio. He was a surgeon with them and was at the Battle of Glorietta Pass, New Mexico. She went along as an ambulance driver. Their travels across Texas and other places is real interesting. They went thru Indian attacks, floods, watched as men froze to death at their post, and could not get enough food for all of the troops. It's a saga of what it was like back in the day. There's an additional letter at the end of this. After the war, he borrowed money to open a drug store in San Antonio. The Union Army came thru, took everything he had and handed him worthless script. He spent the rest of his life as a doctor paying off the loan for the drugs. Ironically I guess, he died on a stage coach between San Antonio and Calaveras Texas where he lived on borrowed land. He died of a heart attack. Hope you find it interesting:
https://falcon.tamucc.edu/wiki/TOGS/JenniferSnyder
https://falcon.tamucc.edu/wiki/TOGS/JenniferSnyder