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Colonel Carr says two thousand negroes rushed back and lifted him from his feet and swept him to the rear. General Delavan Bates, who was shot through the face, said at that time that Ransom's Brigade was reported to occupy those lines. When the battle was at its highest the Seventeenth was forced down its line about thirty yards.
A bright and most business- like thought suddenly came into her head. The breakfast-hour was always late; by being a little earlier than usual she could have plenty of time to go to Crum Elbow and return before the family were assembled. Splendid! Daisy went down the back stairs, and gave her orders in such a way that they should not reach Ransom's ear.
These came from Eloise, Daisy's other cousin. Mrs. Gary had brought her two beautiful toilet bottles of Bohemian glass. Daisy's end of the table was growing full. "What is this?" said Mrs. Gary, taking from the épergne a sealed note directed to Daisy. "That is Ransom's present. Give her mine first," said Mr. Randolph. "Which is yours? I don't see anything more."
An investigation is never what a guilty party desires; and judging her by himself, Ransom had reason to dread the chance of retaliation which such a proceeding would give his little sister. So Daisy and Ransom wore thoughtful faces during the rest of breakfast-time; and the result of Ransom's reflections was that the investigation would go on most pleasantly without him.
"Ah, don't be rough with me," he said, in his soft Southern voice; "don't you remember how you knocked me about when I called on you in Boston?" "You hold us in chains, and then, when we writhe in our agony, you say we don't behave prettily!" These words, which did not lessen Ransom's wonderment, were the young lady's answer to his deprecatory speech. "Oh, Miss Tarrant Miss Tarrant!"
"Then I wouldn't come here any more with her or anywhere else." "I don't," said Daisy. "I don't go with her, or with anybody else much. Only I go with Sam and the pony." "Where's Ransom. Don't he go with you?" "Oh, Ransom's older, you know; and he's a boy." "Ransom don't know his advantages. This is pleasant, Daisy. Now let us see. What were you and I about?"
"I think girls ought to stay at home when there is anything going on. They are plaguily in one's way!" "That is a very womanish speech," said the doctor; "in so far as that it is very unmanly." Ransom's temper nowise improved by this reply, he took up sulkily his ends of the chair poles; and once more the party set forward.
Instead of being nervous about the coming encounter, however, Elizabeth grew more steady and self-reliant as she felt his eyes upon her, and actually became interested in the small affairs preceding the ringing of the bell, and forgot him altogether till it was time to call the roll. Jacob Ransom's name came last on the list. A titter ran around the room when it was called.
Then Riley bade his men look to the priming of their guns, and reload those which the rain had wet. With the first ray of daylight the firing had begun again between the Mexican camp and Ransom's corps stationed in front and Shields's brigade at San Jeronimo. Almost at the same moment Riley began to ascend the height in the rear.
Pickett's Division had, before this time, been sent to Wilmington, N.C., while Ransom's Division, with Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, of McLaws' Division, were to keep watch of the enemy at Fredericksburg. The Federal General, Stoneman, with his cavalry, was then on his famous but disastrous raid to Richmond.
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