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Updated: June 8, 2025
The "Rads" had given a barbecue down in Blackland, just two days before the visit of Jeff-Jack and those others to Widewood and what did she reckon! Cornelius Leggett had there made a speech, declaring that he was at the bottom of a patriotic project to open a free white school in Suez, and "bu'st Rosemont wide open." "Judge March," said the wife, affectionately, "I wonder why Mr.
They met and passed three horsemen armed to the teeth and very tipsy. "Why, if to-morrow ain't election-day ag'in! Why, I quite fo'gotten that!" At the edge of the town two more armed riders met them. "Judge March, good mawnin', seh." All stopped. "Goin' to Suez?" "We goin' on through into Blackland." "I don't think you can, seh. Our pickets hold Swanee River bridge. Yes, sah, ow pickets.
On the 4th of June I was ordered to proceed with my regiment along the Blackland road to determine the strength of the enemy in that direction, as it was thought possible we might capture, by a concerted movement which General John Pope had suggested to General Halleck, a portion of Beauregard's rear guard.
On the 4th of June I was ordered to proceed with my regiment along the Blackland road to determine the strength of the enemy in that direction, as it was thought possible we might capture, by a concerted movement which General John Pope had suggested to General Halleck, a portion of Beauregard's rear guard.
"What business is it of yours or your Blackland darkies what I do with my woods?" "Why, thass jess it! Whass nobody's business is ev'ybody's business, you know." March smiled and moved toward Fair. "I've no time to talk with you now, Leggett." "Oh! no, seh, I knowed you wouldn't have.
Marching south through Corinth, we passed on the 4th of June the scene of our late raid, viewing with much satisfaction, as we took the road toward Blackland, the still smoldering embers of the burned trains.
So, for two more years, and John was fifteen. Then the Judge decided to explain to him, confidentially, their long poverty. "Daphne, dear" he was going down into Blackland "if you see no objection I'll take son with me. Why, no, dear, not both on one hoss, you're quite right; that wouldn't be kind to son." "A merciful man, Powhatan, is merciful to "
The head of the enemy's column on the Blackland and Booneville road came in contact with my pickets three miles and a half west of Booneville. These pickets, under Lieutenant Leonidas S. Scranton, of the Second Michigan Cavalry, fell back slowly, taking advantage of every tree or other cover to fire from till they arrived at the point where the converging roads joined.
Leggett reclined in his seat in the House of Representatives. His boots were on his desk, and he tapped them with his sword-cane while he waited to back up with his vote a certain bet of the Friday night before. A speaker of his own party was alluding to him as the father of free schools in Blackland and Clear water; but he was used to this and only closed his eyes. A page brought his mail.
I had such a run of luck last night, with five for the main, and seven to five all night, until those ruffians wanted to pay me with Altamont's bill upon me. The luck turned from that minute. Never held the box again for three mains, and came away cleared out, leaving that infernal cheque behind me. How shall I pay it? Blackland won't hold it over.
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