Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War, Volumen2Chapman and Hall, 1863 |
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Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War, Volumen2 Catherine Cooper Hopley Vista completa - 1863 |
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Página 213 - Books, slates, torn fragments and old covers were littered all over this apartment, in which were some old shabby ricketty desks, an antique piano, and benches. For a time I laboured hard to establish some system of order and tidiness, but in spite of blockade and scarcity, torn, worn, scribbled books, broken slates and lost pencils were of every-day occurrence. A great long row of books that I had arranged on the old piano, was one morning missing entirely; no one knew what had become of them, no...
Página 144 - Rifles," and on finding they had just been ordered to Fairfax Courthouse, resolved to follow them there, six or seven miles further on the Alexandria road, and where they all had acquaintances, and where they arrived rather late in the evening. Dr. McGee and his wife stopped at the house of their friend Mrs. H. About two o'clock Mrs. McGee was aroused by the tramp of horses and firing of muskets in the village. Alarmed at the confusion that assailed her ears she awoke her husband. At that moment...
Página 199 - ... associated with the charms of Savannah. There is an exceedingly handsome and wellfinished monument standing in the centre of the street leading to the park. It is to the memory of Count Pulaski, one of the heroes of the last revolution. The inscription is as follows : — PULASKI, THE HEROIC POLE, Who fell mortally Wounded, Fighting for American Liberty at the Siege of Savannah, 9th OCTOBER, 1779: ROBERT E.
Página 155 - One store was closed, being quite "sold out ;" another had just sold the last ounce of the article to the hospitals: and the tJiird promised to send to Nashville "next week" for the required medicine. Next we went to the shoemaker's. Poor man! what with his workmen all enlisted, and his materials so scarce, it was a slow process to get shoes, or even to have them repaired. He said he had been waiting, I forget how long, for shoe-thread. " That stuff they make here is of no use at all ; our people...
Página 11 - European promise of not recognizing " an inefficient blockade," again came in the way of enterprise ; and though some few people did manufacture salt in insignificant quantities, not anything like a staple was produced. Paper of all kinds was becoming very scarce and dear, and people were experimentalizing in the manufacture of ink, but not at first succeeding very well, as those English dispatches proved, for it was doubtful whether they could be deciphered after all. Unused to save, or economize...
Página 260 - double quick' to the bay, to protect the valuable cargo, which, with the assistance of many citizens and their waggons within eighty miles, was brought safely to the Arsenal. Though within reach of the Yankees, they had laboured unmolested, and the Marianna Dragoons came back quite disappointed at such an unaccountable fact. "The 'Florida' brought some other useful articles besides muskets; which for a time occupied all the ladies, and all their horses and carriages within many miles, as they seized...
Página 108 - When they attempt to gallop, they tumble over and roll off their horses like ten pins:" said the Southerners of their enemies. " Ten pins " being a sort of grown-up game of nine pins. The poor Yankee soldiers in their dread of the " Secessioners " at Leesburg, and after their general experience of the summer campaign, had recourse to all manner of manoeuvres in order to escape death or imprisonment. One poor man was found leaning against a tree apparently in his last gasp. "You wretched sinner...
Página 219 - Those killing days were horrible. You could not look out of a door or window without beholding cart-loads of slaughtered pigs being carried to the yard to be cut up. Then you could not venture a step beyond the threshold without perceiving this cutting-up process, when all sorts of appendages were strung upon lines to be dried, and a whole row of negroes were engaged before boards and benches in salting, packing, and drying these portions of pigs. which made one feel one never wished to behold a...
Página 24 - Do come out here and see the bridesmaids," exclaimed several ladies. The coloured belles were all really well dressed in good materials; but Hatty, being the especial favourite, attracted the principal attention, therefore we will allow the others to pass down the stairs, our private stairs, " the ladies' entrance " positively, where two hack carriages are awaiting them ; while Mrs.
Página 92 - ... be declared the worst evil of slavery, if it were confined to slaveholders alone. There is a sort of gipsy beauty in the nearly white negro. The large dark eyes retain their brilliancy, while their form is improved ; a rich glow in the cheeks, a well-formed nose and full rosy lips, with glossy black ringlets, are good artistic features to begin with.