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Updated: June 17, 2025
First Lieutenant J.L. Talbert having been killed at Maryland Heights a few days before, Second Lieutenant Giles M. Berry became Captain; he resigned, and Lieutenant West A. Cheatham was made Captain by promotion. Captain J.L. Litchfield, of Company I, was killed at Maryland Heights, and First Lieutenant Litchfield was made Captain.
"I only suggest it or chiefly, or partly because you can have it reach our public in just the form you want, and the Rochester and Syracuse papers will copy my paragraph; but if you leave it to their Eastridge correspondents " "That's true," he assented. "I'll speak to Mrs. Talbert " He walked so inconclusively away that I was not surprised to have him turn and come back before I left my place.
He shook hands with us hastily and abstractedly, and asked if he might speak to me inside the house. "Mrs. Talbert," he said, closing the door of the library as soon as we were inside it, "I am sure you will try not to feel alarmed at something I must tell you of at once.
Aunt Elizabeth came to me full of mystery soon after she came back, and told me that Harry Goward had become infatuated with her when she was off on one of her visits " I couldn't help exclaiming, "Well, of all things!" "That's not the queerest part," Ada went on. "She told me as confidently as could be that he is still in love with her." "Ada," said I, "Elizabeth Talbert must be daft!
Company F, Captain John S. Hard. Company G, Captain J. Hampden Brooks. Company H, Captain Elbert Bland. Company I, Captain W.E. Prescott. Company K, Captain Bart Talbert. Captain Perryman with his company, the "Secession Guards," volunteered for the Confederate service before the other companies, and left for Virginia on April 28th and joined the Second South Carolina Regiment.
Older if not shrewder observers than ourselves declared that what went in that house was what Mrs. Talbert said, and that it went all the more effectively because what she said Talbert said too. That might have been because she said so little.
Miss Elizabeth Talbert, instead of Lily Talbert, might naturally set him wrong. Everybody here calls me Elizabeth. Outside Eastridge I am Lily. I dare say Ned Temple has not dreamed who I am. I hear that he is quite brilliant, although the poor fellow must be limited as to his income. However, in some respects it must be just as well.
Moreover, it would be a humiliating confession to make that I had forgotten to ask Goward about the letter, when everybody knew that that was what I had called upon him for, and when I thought of all the various expressions in the very expressive Talbert eyes that would fix themselves upon me as I mumbled out my confession, I would have given much to be well out of it.
She sounded like her father played on a mandolin. After supper Talbert took me to the summer-house at the foot of the garden to smoke. Our first cigars were about half burned out when he began to unbosom himself.
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