CIVIL WAR - CSA
 

Reported in the Atlanta Constitution, 12 Feb 1900

SHE IS OLD AND HOMESICK

Mrs. Brassell Goes to the Police Barracks to Find a Place to Sleep

Far from home, and without money or friends, Mrs. Elizabeth Brassell, age 65 years, went to the police barracks last night to get a place to sleep.

The old woman is trying to reach Charleston, where she expects to draw $20 pension money. She has recently lived near Harmony Grove, Ga., where she tried to earn a living by cooking and nursing.

"I just got out of heart and homesick," she stated last night, "and knowing that if I could reach my old home once again, I would get $20, which would give me a fresh start in life, I started off on the long journey, trusting that good people would help me along the way."

Her husband, William Brassell, fought in the confederate army in the tenth South Carolina Regiment. He was severely wounded at the close of the war and died from his injuries at Charleston shortly after being taken there from the battlefield.

Mrs. Brassell has had many troubles, so she states, and she adds, "They have mostly been downs."

When asked how old she was, she replied,

"Well, there has been so much worry and trouble to distract this old brain that I cannot tell exactly when I was born. I must be about sixty-five years of age. I know I have seen it rain many a time."

She was the mother of eight children. "But all of them are dead," she says, "And not one left to comfort me in my old age."

The city will probably furnish the old woman with a free pass to Charleston today.
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I found a list of the South Carolina, 10th Regiment, Company K, "Eutaw Volunteers" from Charleston.  There are four BRASSELL men.

Comment and contribution by: Joyce Zachman