Tuesday Intro/Teaser

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea every Tuesday. To participate share the opening paragraph or two of a book you've decided to read based on that paragraph. Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"April 3, 1865

Josephine Weatherly thought she'd already lived through the darkest hour of this endless war, but she had been wrong. Now all hope was truly gone. She huddled with her sister by the upstairs window in her aunt's home, watching smoke churn into the sky above Richmond, Virginia, like thunderheads. How could the city where she and her family had taken refuge descend into such terror and anarchy? President Davis and the Confederate government were fleeing. Hungry mobs were looting downtown. The enemy invasion everyone had long feared was about to begin. 'Shouldn't we leave, too?' her sister, Mary, asked. 'Everyone else is.' All day they'd watched streams of refugees fleeing Richmond, along with the Confederate government officials, their wagons and carts and wheelbarrows piled high with household goods. 'Where would we go?' Josephine said with a shrug. Hunger made her listless. She couldn't tear her gaze from the view of the city, barely visible beyond the distant treetops."

All Things New by Lynn Austin




Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.