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Updated: May 15, 2025
Your picture!" she cried, as with the bullet-marked carte de visite in her hand she flitted straight to her friend. "Why, where did this come from?" asked Miss Folsom in surprise, "and what's happened to it? all creased and black there!" Then both the girls and Loomis looked to him for explanation, while Folsom drove away, and even through the bronze and tan the boy was blushing.
Many a good tale is told, indeed; for the fathers and mothers of Corinth love to talk of the war times, and to point out in Old Town the bullet-marked buildings and the scenes of many thrilling events.
"All right, sir." Green saluted and stood at attention awaiting the arrival of Stuart. Lee's aide had approached the Engine House, watched in breathless suspense by a crowd of more than two thousand people. In spite of the efforts of the sentinels they had jammed every inch of space commanding a view of the enclosure. When Stuart reached the bullet-marked door he called: "For Mr.
This little yard, bullet-marked, close, and shut from all sympathy, is to us the ghastliest spot in the world. Can Mr. Davis visit it, and pray as he does so devoutly afterward? When men plead the justice of the South, and arguments are prompt to favor them, let this prison yard rise up and say that no such crimes in liberty's name have ever been committed, on this continent, at least.
As his subordinates dashed up the stairway in futile pursuit, he dallied in the bullet-marked room that he might walk to the center of the stage and wave his unwounded arm melodramatically. "I will rescue her," he vowed solemnly. "I will rescue my little Martha though the chase leads to the burning, sand-strewn deserts of Africa!" There was tumultuous applause and the curtain.
Not improbably he had not seen a great many bullet-marked men. "Jim! the long-haired fool didn't try to draw on you!" exclaimed Snake Anson, astounded. Wilson neither spoke nor ceased his pacing. "What was it over?" added Anson, curiously. "He hit the gurl," replied Wilson. Then there were long-drawn exclamations all around, and glance met glance.
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