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Civil War started and the Northern people started the blockade which stopped payments, fNote by compiler: Elizabeth Lovick Bright died in 1858, three years before the Civil War started.) After our war was over, a year or so later my father took the deeds that Aunt Snma Bright sent him of the estate and deposits of the Bridge to lawyers in New Orleans, and they sent copies of them to the Queen's attorney in Bigland, who was Judah P, Benjamin, Secretary of State in the Confederacy,who had escaped to gland. Benjamin wrote back that our title was "perfectly good," but the "deposit was so much the Queen wouldn?t let it go out of the Kingdom." Tt had increased to over 11 millions of dollars* "But if the heirs would go there to live, they could draw on it every year until it was paid out." So iry father said he wouldn't live in "any D-? country but his own." I remember my mother and Brother Lue arguing over it and trying to induce him to take us all and go to Ehgland, but to no avail.
The next story is also about Elizabeth Lovick Bright, but could not have happened to her, since she had died about five years before this event took place. Maybe it-happened to somebody. Maybe her daughter Emma?
During the last year of the war, when Sherman made his devastating march through the South, burning, destroying and taking everything worth while, one wing of his army came through this part of Florida. One of his officers in high command fprobably Neal Dow) took possession of my grandfather Bright's home for his headquarters. Other officers took possession of the Mitchell home. The officer in the Bright home ordered my Great- Grandmother Bright and her daughters upstairs and told them to lock their doors or he would not be responsible for them. He made the servants cook and wait on him and his men. He used the front hall for his office. Grandmother did not know just what to do. She thought of a Masonic Regalia belonging to her husband and got it out and put it on and went downstairs. Walking up to the General she said, "Are you a Mason?" He looked at the Regalia, hesitated, then said, "Yes, Madam,
I	am sorry to say. What do you want?" She told him she wanted her coachman to bring out the coach to the door and let her and her daughters leave there. He consented with her word that she take nothing with her. She and her daughters left at once and went up to La Grange, Ga. to her daughter Caroline (Mrs. Ben Ferrell.)
Neal Dow had a Federal ship in the harbor in Pensacola at the time. He shipped the parlor furniture which had been imported from Shgland by Great Grandfather Bright, with the piano, all inlaid in pearl and very handsome. He took everything he wanted of value and told his men to help themselves of all that was left and then burn the place, which they did. Neal Dow had all his booty shipped to Boston to his home.
Note by Eleanor Farabee:	T	remember	seeing in the Pensacola Historical Museum
files something about the fact that Elizabeth L. Bright had very bad teeth and had huge dental bills in Pensacola. T'Jhen T was growing up T remember Mama talking about some family treasures. The ones T remember her mentioning were a pen with a jewel in the end and a set of gold false teeth. T wonder if the teeth could have belonged to l!lizabeth Bright.