DURING the
Civil War a Patriot was passing through the State of Maryland with a pass from the President to join Grant's army and see the fighting.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending
civil war. All dreaded it-- all sought to avert it.
I had known Barting as a captain in the Federal army during the
civil war. At its close he had settled in Franklin, and in time became, I had reason to think, somewhat prominent as a lawyer.
In this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the
Civil War, when we were all declared free.
The car- penter, who had been a soldier in the
Civil War, came into the writer's room and sat down to talk of building a platform for the purpose of raising the bed.
During the
Civil War he as- sisted in the recruiting of colored men for the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments and consistently argued for the emancipation of slaves.
"There was now a
civil war in England; and the king, as you may well suppose, had his hands full at home, and could pay but little attention to these remote colonies.
The younger poet paints, with the brush of Verestchagin, the realism and horrors of
civil war. In most of Tu Fu's work there is an underlying sadness which appears continually, sometimes in the vein that runs throughout the poem, sometimes at the conclusion, and often at the summing up of all things.
His family had been ruined in the
Civil War, I fancy, and seems for a decade or so to have led a wandering life in the Old World.
The Fraysers were well-to-do, having a good position in such society as had survived the wreck wrought by
civil war. Their children had the social and educational opportunities of their time and place, and had responded to good associations and instruction with agreeable manners and cultivated minds.
From our Revolution to the
Civil War, to the Great Depression, to the Civil Rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history.
"My father stayed behind to fight in the
Civil War. He was a drummer-boy.