A Chautauqua Boy in '61 And Afterward: Reminiscences
A Chautauqua Boy in '61 And Afterward: Reminiscences
Parker, David B. (David Bigelow), 1842-1910
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I made a practice of walking to my tailor shop and opening it up, but nobody came in, and there was no tailor work to do. A crowd gathered around the post-office at mail-time every day, but if I walked among them they turned away. Nobody spoke to me, and as I only heard their secession talk and heard them read secession newspaper telling lies and lies about the progress of the war, I stopped going. Once in a while some man would holler to me, ' Squire, come here and hear this. We have licked th...e Yankees,' but I controlled myself and had no personal difficulties. I stayed around home and worked in my garden, as isolated as though there was nobody else in that town. One day some men Digitized byGoogk POSTAL SERVICE IN VIRGINIA 137 came and stopped at the palings outside and called to me, and said, * Squire Gibbs, good morning. Good morning, Squire Gibbs. Come out here ; we want you to go with us to the levee,' and I went out and said, * What is up? What do you mean? ' I thought some new persecution had been invented.
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