I stirred up the cinders, and fetched a scuttleful myself. The invalid complained of being covered with ashes; but he had a tiresome cough, and looked feverish and ill, so I did not rebuke his temper.
Visit the Tennessee State Museum and learn more about the city’s role in the Civil War, and how it rose from the ashes to become the Athens of The South.
In the four years since as giant oaks have been felled, and the ashes cleared away, shock and dismay has turned to confidence that the spire and the cathedral will rise again.