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e as he shook hands with Ralph. "You are to show yourself at headquart

lph, and said:-"You are

in the presence of his commanding officers, and as he saluted respe

t query, as the officer looked i

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seen any s

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whom we have strong reasons to believe is a rebel spy. You have shown two qualities befitting a soldier-pluck

and fast. What had he do

u, and you are expected to attend

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he parried all their questions, and m

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sit when I was seized. Yo

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is this

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with wounded pride, as

n old colored man, and lives on this side of the

house until more is known abo

was an object of much interest. His sympathies went

oral of the guard, with the abrupt

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ve, but I thought you might like to know that I

s face

stances. I suppose, in fact, I know, I'd have done just as y

t hold any gru

eful to you for my detention in this

o see the old slave you

boy's features. "I said so once. My word is u

uppose. You look too you

ook too young to be carrying

o help put down

ot a rebellion; it's an uprising aga

You don't mean to say that y

s to give up our rights, but we won't be driven. We have thousands of men in the field, who do not know how to fear. A

d you in all your rights. You have no cause for wi

qual? Why should I not s

reason to me

of any crime, surrounded by foes and powerless.

ar as if the odds were on his side, and w

r you. We will

better not talk about it any more, for we can never agree, and we are both h

sen the night-time as he heard the Union pickets were thrown out, and he did not think, with his knowledge of the stream, that he would be captured in the darkness. Meantime

e soldiers said, "do

Thomas' boy. I bin on his old plantation sin

other was. What do you know a

'-I was young and strong den-'Jim, dis yere boy's gwine to be your young mastah some day, if he ebber grows b

dissertation on flowers. Tell us

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Marsa Thomas is in de war wid Gineral Johnston, and 'fore he went he say to me-'Jim, you'se been a faiful old servant, and I gibs you yo freedom.' 'I doan't want it, Marsa,' I say. 'Let me lib and die wid you,' 'Yo neber shall want,' he kep' on, 'go lib in de little cabin toder side ob de ribber. You know he owns bof sides ob dis yere big plantation. 'Go lib dar, and de chilluns wi

his utterance was choked, and the tears rolled down his black cheeks as

im go home. And while we stay here,

! Bress you for

de he passed out of the officer's tent, with the old man hobbling af

ment could offer. The men were hardy and strong, and with light hearts talked of the battles yet in store for them. And when jests were exchanged, often after having

which did not keep out the cold, however, and many a man died from disease who would have lived to fight, had he been properly

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inary department was ever a point of interest to the men, whose appetites were never so dainty that they failed to enjoy their daily rations. No soldier, no matter from what part of the North

ring to the hungry ones of his company,

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how those kind of chickens the sutler has

oung porker in the sty. They had no regard for property rights, and though they were not

s grunting of the pigs, who often led them a hard chase, and the laughter and sh

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take what did not belong to them. He never would join them in these expeditions, a course w

as long and rank. As he peered round for his game he spied a dozen or so eggs shining in the sun. "Ah," he said, "my lady hen is stealing a nest. Well, they look white and fresh, and I'll just confiscate them."

'll put them in my cap. I

rope tied to one of the hind legs of a monstrous pig, who was jerking him right and left, in quite an unmilitary fashion. Now he was nearly on the animal's back, and next he was measuring his leng

was grimy with perspiration, while his dust-covered clothes looked as

s legs. Zach lost his balance and fell, and as he instinctively shot out his hands to save his eggs his head struck them squarely, while the liquid streaming down his fac

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