Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the hves of passengers on his railwaytrain. Wallace and Leigh married sisters, Misses Luckett,of Rapides. So the old stock will not be forgotten in theold South or the young West. CHAPTER XVI IN THE TWIN STATES High-headed, refined and historic Charleston has notbeen without her sensations. She has been the seat of onegreat seismic convulsion and of several political ones. Shewas the cradle of nullifica-tion and of Civil was held the conven-tion that sent the tripledemocratic Horatii to holdthe bridge against Lincoln,and laid them, slaughtered,a
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the hves of passengers on his railwaytrain. Wallace and Leigh married sisters, Misses Luckett,of Rapides. So the old stock will not be forgotten in theold South or the young West. CHAPTER XVI IN THE TWIN STATES High-headed, refined and historic Charleston has notbeen without her sensations. She has been the seat of onegreat seismic convulsion and of several political ones. Shewas the cradle of nullifica-tion and of Civil was held the conven-tion that sent the tripledemocratic Horatii to holdthe bridge against Lincoln,and laid them, slaughtered,at his feet. There was theglory of the palmetto-loggedMoultrie, the theatrical oneof Sumter, when gallant menwith silk hats, and red sash-es binding swords to theirfrock coats, marched awayfrom weeping wives, to dresson Beauregard. Not a fewof these must have smiled,in quick-succeeding scenes offield and hospital, at thedramatic terrors of that undress rehearsal: Mr. Chesnutsomewhere on that black harbor in an open boat!—a noble 193. GENERAL JOHN CHESNUT 194 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES old dame wiring her blessing to her grandson for shootingaway the flagstaff, and Wigfall crawling through a rearporthole and praying grim old Robert Anderson, in the nameof humanity, not to commit fiery felo de se. Charleston and the whole state of South Carolina havegiven famous men and noble women to the councils andthe wars—to the matronage and the society—of the Unionever since the Rattlesnake flag. Rarely an imitator, she transplanted the indigenous Bos-ton fad and fostered it into secession. She has had hersocial sensations, indubitably, while never vaunting them,but Charleston never took the salon infection. Her onecase was mild and sporadic. James L. Pettigrew was the most noted lawyer and themost quoted wit of his day in the city of the battery. Hehad two daughters, Mrs. King and Mrs. Carson. Sue King,as her intimates called the elder, was audacious and odds
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