And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take. (Dolley Madison)

And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.

Dolley Madison

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