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"But Mr. Wilmarth?" "I hate the sight of him, and Marcia used to say everything about him. He's humpbacked or something, and looks like a tiger. Well, I do wish her joy if ever he should get in a tantrum. You see, after all, the idea of bringing such a man in the family. Floyd's marriage was bad enough." "But your petite sister-in-law does improve wonderfully."
Captain Foster's Work on Fort Moultrie. Governor Gist convenes the South Carolina Legislature. Creation of a Standing Army. Arrival of Masons from Baltimore. Situation of Fort Sumter. A Dramatic Incident. Secretary Floyd's Action. Horace Greeley's Advocacy of the Right of Secession. The Situation November 18th. The United States Arsenal in Charleston is situated on the banks of the Ashley River.
Floyd's face burns as he thrusts it in Denise's stove to consume. "Have you heard?" St. Vincent asks, as he enters the room. "Yes." The tone acknowledges the rest. "It is all vain, useless, then! Young people are not trained to pay heed to the advice of their elders. My poor, poor Violet!" The utter despair touches Grandon. He has ceased to fight even for his child.
"Get my clothes, Sister Ann. I can walk." "No, you mustn't walk, Deary, you can't; we'll drive. But I wish you wouldn't go out at all, Floyd. Do listen to me!" "But I must go. Please, get my clothes." After brief, but vain, arguing, Ann yielded to Floyd's entreaties. The governor, meditating in his library, was disturbed by a ring at the front door.
As early as April, 1861, Memphis had commenced the alteration of immense quantities of flintlock muskets, sent South during Floyd's term as Secretary of War. I saw this work progressing, even before Secession was a completed fact there. New Orleans turned out the best rifles I ever saw in the South. They were similar to the French Minié rifle, furnished with fine sword-bayonets.
The number of the latter were supposed to be three times that of Colonel Floyd's party. The Colonel narrowly escaped with his life, by the aid of Captain Samuel Wells, who, seeing him on foot, pursued by the enemy, dismounted and gave him his own horse, and as he fled, ran by his side to support him on the saddle, from which he might have fallen through weakness from his wounds.
He fought with a desire to kill someone; but banished the thought that Fledra had not held faith with him. He called to mind her affection and passionate devotion, and knew that to doubt her would be unjust. But, if to leave him had made her unhappy, why had she gone? He thought of Floyd's letter, and a sudden wish to read it seized him.
The first Church I remember was the Old Fork Baptist Church about four miles from Lancaster on the Lexington Pike. The first preacher I remember was Burdette Kemper. I heard him preach at the old church where my Mistus and Master took me every Sunday. The first Baptizin' that I remember was on Dix Fiver near Floyd's Mill.
Lincoln Declared Elected. Early Disunion Sentiment. Nullification. The Agitation of 1850. The Conspiracy of 1856. The "Scarlet Letter." "The 1860 Association." Governor Gist's Letter to Southern Governors. Replies to Governor Gist. Conspiracy at Washington. Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet. Extracts from Floyd's Diary. Cabinet Conferences on Disunion. The Drayton-Gist Correspondence. Mr. Trescott's Letters.
Floyd's experience shows that these parties were continually meeting others and splitting up; he started out with eight men, at one time was in a body with thirty-seven, and returned home with four. The journal is written in a singularly clear and legible hand, evidently by a man of good education.
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