US Civil War
It has been said that the peasants of the Campagna, in their semi-annual visits to the Pontine marshes, arrive piping and dancing; but it is seldom they return in the same merry mood, the malaria fever being sure to affect them more or less. Although I did not leave Jackson on...
In the afternoon, M---- went into the city, with some of the officers, to make arrangements for me. I was much amused, though I did not let them see it, as they set off on their...
24. CHAPTER XXIV.The next day, the family were invited up to our cave; and the lady told me, with tears, of the death of the faithful old man, who had served her mother before her. The morning o...
21. CHAPTER XXI.I am told by my friends, who call, that I am looking worn and pale, and frequently asked if I am not weary of this cave life. I parry the question as well as possible, for I do...
10. CHAPTER X.From gentlemen who called on the evening of the attack in the rear of the town, we learned that it was quite likely, judging from the movements on the river, that the gunboats w...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.A few days after the assault on the Confederate fortifications, a sad accident cast a gloom over all the little community encamped in the ravine--officers, soldiers, and servant...
5. CHAPTER V.Leaving the threatened, teeming town behind us, we moved slowly on--our friends, my little one, and myself--toward Vicksburg. Ah! Vicksburg, our city of refuge, the last to yiel...
22. CHAPTER XXII.One evening I noticed one of the horses tied in the ravine, acting very strangely--writhing and struggling as if in pain. One of the soldiers went to him and found that he was v...
11. CHAPTER XI.One afternoon, amid the rush and explosion of the shells, cries and screams arose--the screams of women amid the shrieks of the falling shells. The servant boy, George, after st...
7. CHAPTER VII.Sunday, the 17th--the memorable seventeenth of May--as we were dressing for church, and had nearly completed the arrangement of shawls and gloves, we heard the loud booming of c...
1. CHAPTER I.It has been said that the peasants of the Campagna, in their semi-annual visits to the Pontine marshes, arrive piping and dancing; but it is seldom they return in the same merry...
9. CHAPTER IX.The next morning all was quiet; we heard no startling rumors; the soldiers were being gathered together and taken out into the rifle pits; Vicksburg was regularly besieged, and...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.How dewy and pleasant the morning! I stood looking out from the little terrace, breathing the fresh air, and learning the new surroundings, so far as my eye went, for it was not...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Even the very animals seemed to share the general fear of a sudden and frightful death. The dogs would be seen in the midst of the noise to gallop up the street, and then to ret...
13. CHAPTER XIII.It was about four o'clock, one Wednesday evening--the shelling during the day had gone on about as usual--I was reading in safety, I imagined, when the unmistakable whirring of...
20. CHAPTER XX.The clouds had been darkening around us all day, and at night we had the prospect of a storm. M---- sent George out with a spade to slope the earth about the roof of our home, a...
17. CHAPTER XVII.The road we were travelling was graded out through the hills; and on every side we could see, thickly strewn among the earthy cliffs, the never-to-be-lost sight of caves--large...
3. CHAPTER III.At breakfast, on the morning of the 17th, we heard discussed the question, Whether there was a masked battery on the opposite shore or not? After some words on the subject, pro...
16. CHAPTER XVI.I was sitting near the entrance, about five o'clock, thinking of the pleasant change--oh, bless me!--that to-morrow would bring, when the bombardment commenced more furiously th...
2. CHAPTER II.AT NIGHT THE SIGNAL GUN SOUNDS--THE GUNBOATS ARE COMING DOWN--THE TOWN AWAKE--SHELL MUSIC--THE BOATS NEAR US--RAPID DESCENT TO THE CAVE--THEY HAVE PASSED SAFELY--WHY THE CONFEDE...
15. CHAPTER XV.With the dawn came the old unrest and distrust, for the shells were again falling quite thickly around us; and I passed an hour or two in continual shrinkings and exclamations....
6. CHAPTER VI.We settled ourselves delightfully. With our sewing in the morning, and rides in the evening, our home was very pleasant--very happy and quiet. Rumors came to us of the advance o...
12. CHAPTER XII.My past resolution having forsaken me, again were the mortar shells heard with extreme terror, and I was many days recovering the equanimity I had been so long attaining. This n...
4. CHAPTER IV.Our quiet was destined to be of short duration. We were startled one morning by hearing that Colonel Grierson, of the Federal army, was advancing on Jackson. The citizens applie...
19. CHAPTER XIX.A servant brought me one day a present from an officer, that was acceptable indeed: two large, yellow, ripe, June apples, sealed in a large envelope. They were as much of a vari...
8. CHAPTER VIII.At dark the fresh troops from Warrenton marched by, going out to the intrenchments in the rear of the city about two miles; many of the officers were fearful that the fortificat...