Maudie Celia Hopkins, 89, talks about her first husband, Confederate veteran William M. Cantrell, in her Lexa, Ark., home. The United Daughters of the Confederacy has recognized Hopkins as a surviving widow of a Civil War soldier. She refers to her first husband as "Mr. Cantrell."
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"I didn't do anything wrong. I've worked hard my whole life and did what I had to, what I could, to survive. I didn't want to talk about it for a while because I didn't want people to gossip about it. I didn't want people to make it out to be worse than it was."
-- Maudie Celia Hopkins, Civil War veteran's widow