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Identifier: bluegrayorcivilw00whit (find matches)
Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY. his veins as he listened to stirring arguments day by day, andsaw one after another of his companions leave their homes tojoin the forces that were being hurried forward to headquarters. HE CAN ENDURE IT NO LONGER. 25 He felt that he must go with them. Why not? His eye wasas keen, his brain as clear, his arm as strong to do whateverhis country required of him, as were theirs.
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GENERAL JOHN A. DIX. This longing haunted him by day and night, until it becameunbearable. He went to his mother, and with earnest wordsbegged her to send him. Alas, that mother was not equal to the 26 A MOTHERS ARGUMENT. RALPHS MOTHERHESITATES. task. She was loving, gentle and shrinking, and when he urgedher to let him go, her answer was— Ralph, you know not what you ask. Do you forget that Iam a Southern woman, whose childhoods days were spent in thatbeautiful country? AH my people are there. Would you have mesend my boy away to fight those I love, and whose feelings I mustshare? You are asking too great a sacrifice at my hands. Mother, it is true that you were born and educated there.But did you not love -my father so dearly that you left your home and all your friends to come to the North withhim, where I was born ? A tender smile flitted across her still beau-tiful face. Yes, I did love him, she said softly to herself, andI honor his memory. What shall I do?—I cannot forget m

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  • bookcentury:1800
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