Shoulder-Straps. a Novel of New York And the Army, 1862
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" I am wounded, but McClellan and Fitz-John Porter have to-day flogged the rebels out of their boots at Malvern Hill, and the Union armv is safe !' SHOULDER -STRAPS. 291 " Thank God ! oh, thank God 1" said the old man, reverently. "Marion, lay me back, I am faint." Tie did not seem to be aware that Webster was assisting to hold him up, or that any one was in the place except Crawford and his grand-daughter. His request was obeyed, and he was laid down again on the pallet ; but the excitement of... the last few minutes had per- ceptibly weakened him, and he was evidently failing fast. " Marion, it hurts me to talk — a little. Tell the gentleman, for he is a gentleman, I know — who we are and how we came to be here." " This is my grandfather," the young girl said, still on her knees by the pallet, and evidencing in her calm and childlike tone no surprise at the request, and no agitation in relating what must have pained her so terribly under the circum- stances. "His name is Chester Hobart.
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