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Updated: May 23, 2025
He knew the birds and the trees and all the wild things of Nature, and Tom and Alice were his children. As they grew up before him, it became the dream of the preacher-overseer to see his two pets married. Imagine his sorrow when the war fell like a thunderbolt out of a harvest sky and, among the thousand of other wrecked dreams, went the dream of the overseer.
O Southland of mine, be gentle, be just to these simple people, for they also were faithful. Among the heroic things the four years of the American Civil War brought out, the story of Captain Thomas Travis deserves to rank with the greatest of them. The love of Thomas Travis for the preacher-overseer was the result of a life of devotion on the part of the old man for the boy he had reared.
To-day, the drunken proprietor of Millwood sat in his accustomed place on the front balcony, his cob-pipe in his mouth and ruin all around him. Like others, he had a great respect for the Bishop a man who had been both his own and his father's friend. Often as a lad he had hunted, fished, and trapped with the preacher-overseer, who lived near his father's plantation.
He had never been known to punish one, and yet the work done by the Travis hands was proverbial. Among his duties as overseer, the entire charge of the Westmore stable of thoroughbreds fell to his care. This was as much from love as choice, for never was a man born with more innate love of all dumb creatures than the preacher-overseer.
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