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It was known that Columbus, Kentucky, had been occupied, September 7th, by a strong rebel force, under Generals Pillow and Polk, and that General Grant had moved from Cairo and occupied Paducah in force on the 6th. Many of the rebel families expected Buckner to reach Louisville at any moment. That night, General Anderson sent for me, and I found with him Mr.
September 6th, Brigadier-General U. S. Grant occupied Paducah, an important strategical point at the junction of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers. Next day the Confederate General Polk, advancing from below, took possession of Columbus on the Mississippi. With both hostile armies thus encamped on her soil, Kentucky could no longer be neutral. Her decision was quickly taken.
For two years, Gelett Burgess, Bruce Porter, Porter Garnett, Willis Polk, Ernest Peixotto, and Florence Lundborg performed in it all the artistic antics that their youth, their originality, their high spirits suggested.
If chance should ever lead you near a hotel that transiently shelters some one of these splendid touring grandees, I counsel you to seek Lucullus Polk among the republican tuft-hunters that besiege its entrances. He will be there.
I said something about the stark romance of it of Jeb Stuart flitting like a wraith through the forests; of Sheridan's attack at Chattanooga, when the charging troops on the ridge were silhouetted against a harvest moon; of Leonidas Polk, last of the warrior Bishops, baptizing his fellow generals by the light of a mess candle.
"Why should a man ever do anything indefinite, Jim Polk?" asked Calhoun, bending on him his frosty eyes. "But you may set a fire going which you can not stop. The people may get out of hand before the convention!" "Why should they not? They have interests as well as we. Do they not elect us to subserve those interests?"
This board was dissolved and an executive council composed of Polk, Ward and W. B. Faville was put in charge.
But Anne had told her that his anxiety was a pitiful thing to see, and that it had left him perceptibly weaker. Certain it was that he was failing fast. So fast that on some days Virginia, watching him, would send Ned or Shadrach in hot haste for Dr. Polk. At noon Anne would relieve Virginia, Anne or her mother, and frequently Mr. Brinsmade would come likewise.
I flung the document from me. "This has already cost too much," I said. "We do not buy states thus." "But it will cost you your future! Polk is your enemy, now, as he is Calhoun's. He will not strike you now, but so soon as he dares, he will. Now, if you could do this if you could take this to Mr. Calhoun, to America, it would mean for you personally all that America could give you in honors."
"Mercy, Bess!" whispered Nan. "That's worthy of extravagant Laura Polk herself." "Thank you," responded Bess, as the farmer recovered from a fit of "the chuckles" over Bess Harley's joke. Bess added this question: "What particular form of insanity do your daughter and Sallie Morton display, Mr. Snubbins?" "Movin' picters," ejaculated the farmer. "Drat 'em!
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