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Julia Stratton-Wilcher told Maria and Oscie about the rumors of Will McLean only marring their mother for her weath and property.
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Will McLeana and Virginia SOMETHING told Maria, Sarah, and Oscie that thier wedding was postponed until January in Alexandria.
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Will McLean bought Mary Ann from the Stratton-Wilchers.
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Maria, Sarah, and Oscie got a Yankee tutor, Elvira Buttonworth, from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Mary Ann cut off a peice of Sarah's hair and wanted to use it for her hair wreath.
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Oscie's mother informed her she was going to have a child with Will McLean.
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Mary Ann told little Sarah that there were dragons in the creek that they'd oon be taking swimming lessons in from Button.
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Will McLean did not make Sarah take swimming lessons in the creek over the summer, so she'd sit on the bank with Mary Ann looking for dragons.
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Marry Ann delivered Virginia's baby, Johnn Wilmer, because Doctor Moore was helping Sarah try to recover. John went by Willie and he was five punds when he was born.
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Sarah went ice skating on the creek only to fall in because the ice broke out from under her. Shaking with fever, within three days she died.
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Mary Ann lost her baby because Will McLean put her to work in the fields.
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While visiting the dentsit in Alexandria for Oscie, Button almost got attacked by Southerners because she was from the North.
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Button leaves to go to Washingtion to stay with her Aunt Hannah.
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Oscie finds her first love, Captain Alexander, only to find out that she can never be with him.
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Alex and Oscie ride on horses over to Mrs. Henry's house on the hill and try to pursue her to leave before the war starts.
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Confederate officers inspected the McLean's bulidings and barns to make sure they could use them for a hospital during the war.
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Oscie's cousin, John, asked if she would be willing to plant herbs that would work as medicine for the Confederate hospital.
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Oscie found out that Will McLean was making money off of the Confederacy for his family.
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Virgnia Mason had another child, Nannie McLean, at midnight.
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Oscie and her family moved into their new home at Appomattox Court House.
