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Updated: June 22, 2025
And in those dark days when our land trembled, and a million men from the north tramped southward and a million men from the south tramped northward, and the columns met with a concussion that threatened to rend the land asunder, there, in the battle, midst the din and confusion and blood, women walked, angels of light and mercy, not merely holding the cup of cold water to famished lips, or stanching the life-blood until surgeons came, but teaching soldier boys in the dying hour the way through the valley and beyond it up the heavenly hills.
The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. In another moment I was in a passion of fear and running with great leaping strides down the slope. Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin.
Some of them were cursing and swearing, others were stanching the blood which flowed from various cuts and gashes. "What does all this mean?" he asked as he somewhat recovered himself. "It means," said one, "that we are pressed to serve as soldiers.
Galloping thither they found Reuben lying on his back, apparently dead, with an arrow in his chest. In a moment Jacob was on his knees at his friend's side, and soon the arrow was extracted, but it was found that blood gushed freely from the wound. Stanching this as best they could they bore the wounded man carefully to the Fort. "Oh, father!
Oh, have mercy on me!" and she went on her knees to him, and put her forehead on his knees. He was touched by her simple faith; and the noble traditions of his profession sided with his gratitude to this injured woman. "My poor friend," said he, "I will do my best, for YOUR sake." He took immediate steps for stanching the blood; and the fly carried Phoebe and her villain to the inn at Gravesend.
Such a blow given in battle would assuredly have been fatal, but here the means of stanching the blood were at hand, and I trust for Bijorn's sake that he will recover; but whether or no he brought it on himself." On reaching the tent Freda ran out radiant. "I hear that you have conquered," she said, "and I am glad indeed; it serves him right, for all say that he forced the fight upon you."
In this condition he was found, when bleeding profusely from his wounds and threatened with speedy death, by a young merchant of the city, Resin D. Shepherd, who generously lifted him to his shoulder, after stanching his wounds, and bore him, through brambles and mire, in the darkness, to a place of security and comfort, some miles distant from the scene of the fight.
She was all compunction and honey now, hovering around him where he stood stanching honourable wounds. After a while he laughed. "Thunder!" he exclaimed ruefully; "my nose seems to be growing for fair. You're all right, Geraldine." "Here's my last cup-cake, if you like," said his sister, radiant.
Having heard, from him, that it was entirely due to Hossein that Charlie's life had been saved, the rajah directed that every attention should be paid to him; and several times, during the night, Tim stole away to his bedside to press his hand, and call down blessings upon him. The stanching of his wounds, and the application of strong restoratives, presently caused Charlie to open his eyes.
"I must finish my story," Judge Custis said, stanching his tears. "By the decline of every family with natural feelings and refinement, under what Mr. Pinkney termed 'the contaminating curse of reluctant bondsmen, we, also, became poor. To save others, it was necessary that I must marry, and get money by my own prostitution. My God, how we are repaid!
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