The book The Yankee Conscript Or Eighteen Months in Dixie was written by author George Adams Fisher Here you can read free online of The Yankee Conscript Or Eighteen Months in Dixie book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Yankee Conscript Or Eighteen Months in Dixie a good or bad book?
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* Taylor was a * There being no railroads in the northern part of Texas, transportation is all done by ox-teams — seven or eight yoke being often attached to one wagon. EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN DIXIE. 133 Methodist preacher or exhorter, a character frequently met with in many parts of the State. He was a strong Union man, and had been accused of abolitionism. At various times his life had been threatened in consequence of his Union sentiments. This we learned afterwards ; my brother knew nothing of i...t at the time. On Wednesday morning, the 17th, writs were issued for Taylor and my brother. When he arrived at Taylor's, about one o'clock on this day, he found Mrs. Taylor in violent agitation, sur- rounded by a number of neighbor women. On inquiring the cause of her distress, he was informed that Taylor had been arrested on the charge of abolitionism, and was now on trial, and that a writ had also been issued for him- self. He replied that he thought that could not be possible, for he had never said any thing that could by any fairness be construed to favor abolitionism or disloyalty.
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