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I therefore thought that the interest of the service would be subserved by removing one whose growing indifference might render the best-laid plans inoperative. "HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION. "HARRISONBURG, VA., SEPT. 25, 1864 11:30 P. M. "LIEUT-GENERAL GRANT, Comd'g, City Point, Va. "I have relieved Averell from his command. "P. H. SHERIDAN, Major-General."
All this was unknown to me till the Merrifield children came, and Gillian, discovering these Whites, flew upon them in the true enthusiastic Lily-fashion, added to the independence of the modern maiden mistrustful of old cats of aunts. Like a little goose, she held trystes with Kalliope, through the rails at the top of the garden on Sunday afternoons. 'Only Kalliope! 'Cela va sans dire.
He had returned to his home at Danville, Va., before he had been able to send to us this flag with another that had been omitted, and his solicitude in regard to it, even in the midst of anxiety in regard to his family, was shown by a note which accompanied the parcel. It ran as follows: "DANVILLE, June 5th, 1865.
His expressive face, which always showed what he was feeling, became almost stern, and he began to row faster than before. "Why should the Signora laugh? Am I an imbecile, Signorina?" "You?" She hastened to correct the impression she had made. "Why, Gaspare, you are our Providence!" "Va bene, but " "I only meant that I am sure Madre wouldn't agree with you. She thinks me quite a child.
On the 25th there was no change in the situation in New York, but the banks of Cincinnati, Chicago and New Orleans suspended currency payments, as those of Baltimore had done previously, and two banks at Memphis, Tenn., three at Augusta, Ga., all those at Danville, Va., and a savings bank at Selma, Ala., closed their doors.
To avoid the rigors of a New England climate, Miss Dix, for some years, spent her winters, now in Philadelphia, now in Alexandria, Va., keeping herself busy with reading "of a very multifarious kind, poetry, science, biography, and travels, besides eking out the scanty means she had laid by from her teaching by writing stories and compiling floral albums and books of devotion."
All my dismounted men had been sent to the White House some days before, and they were directed to report to Wilson as they could be provided with mounts. "COLD HARBOR, VA., June 6, 1964. "MAJOR-GENERAL D. HUNTER, Commanding Dept West Virginia.
Take all provisions, forage, and stock wanted for the use of your command. Such as cannot be consumed, destroy. "HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DIVISION, "Cedar Creek, Va., August 16, 1864.
The darkness was almost palpable. It seemed to press against one's eyeballs like a velvet mask. My nerves were so on edge with a sense of the uncanny silence and invisibility that I started violently at the sound of a quiet voice speaking three inches from my ear. "Halte! Qui va la?"
He therefore consulted the book in which guests usually register their names, and, to his great surprise, found that the American's name was Henry Linwood, and that he was from Richmond, Va. It was with feelings of trepidation that Clotelle heard these particulars from the lips of her husband. "We must see this poor man, whoever he is," said she, as Jerome finished the sentence.
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