Atlantic And Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat And Ashore
Atlantic And Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat And Ashore
Mackinnon, L. B. (Laughlan Bellingham), 1815-1877
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How long the war would last, and what would be the end of it none could tell. Nell and mother were in a besieged country, and the blockade between iis seemed an impassable wall. The long silence was becoming unbearable as I slowly realized that it might become the silence of death and I not know. x8 263 Digitized by Google A Virginia Girl in the Civil War At last came news which I thought afifected them, and which startled me into in- stant energy. One morning my friend, Miss Barnett, a beautif...ul girl, rushed into my room, and, throwing herself on the floor beside me, be- gan telling me with sobs and tears that my brother-in-law, Major Grey, or his brother Dick, was a prisoner in the Old Capitol at Washington. She begged me to go at once and see what I could do. If I could not find some way of helping the prisoner to free- dom, I could at least add to his comfort in prison. " You could at least show him that he was remembered," she said. " You could take some little delicacies which would be grateful to a prisoner.
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