Margaret (nee) Junkin Preston (1820-1897) was the author who wrote Silverwood: A Book of Memories (1856), Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War (1865), Old Song and New (1870) and Cartoons (1875). "TO EVERY SOUTHERN WOMAN, WHO HAS BEEN Widowed by the War, I DEDICATE THIS RHYME, PUBLISHED DURING THE PROGRESS OF THE STRUGGLE AND NOW RE-PRODUCED-AS A Faint Memorial of Sufferings, OF WHICH THERE CAN BE NO FORGETFULNESS. "