Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ril 12. Business was sus-pended, all stores were closed and the people collected ingroups in the streets and before the newspaper and govern-ment offices. Various andstrange were the specula-tions as to the issue of thefight and its consequences;but the conviction came likea thunder clap, even to thosemost skeptical, that therewas to be war! Then, with rapid step,action distanced swift following fall ofSumter solidified the Southinto a nation. Then camethe adhesion of Virginia, thedecision to accept her invi-tation to make her soil thebattle
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . ril 12. Business was sus-pended, all stores were closed and the people collected ingroups in the streets and before the newspaper and govern-ment offices. Various andstrange were the specula-tions as to the issue of thefight and its consequences;but the conviction came likea thunder clap, even to thosemost skeptical, that therewas to be war! Then, with rapid step,action distanced swift following fall ofSumter solidified the Southinto a nation. Then camethe adhesion of Virginia, thedecision to accept her invi-tation to make her soil thebattle ground and her capital the Souths. There was a grand parade and review of all the troops atPensacola, by the President, aided by Generals Bragg andBeauregard. It left the country guessing as to which of thetwo would be commander-in-chief. Immediately after it Mr. Davis moved his headquartersto Richmond: the government was boxed up and followedhim, and the nursery of the New Nation was noiselessly de-serted by its now growing GENERAL P. G. T. BEAUREGARD CHAPTER V THE FIRST on TO RICHMOND! The new capital of the Confederacy presented a verydifferent appearance from Montgomery. The approach tothe city of new hope was promising in its picturesqueness. Threading the narrow spanof high trestles, perched spin-dle-legged above the James,Richmond spread in prettypanorama. Green and tree-bordered, the May sun gild-ing white homes and tallspires, it receded to high redhills beyond the later famousheights of Chimborazo to theright and that historic Cityof the Silent, Hollywood,far away to left. Central gleamed the venerable seat oflawmaking. Where looms the Capitol, antique and pure, The great First Rebel points the storied him grouped Virginias great of yore,With StonevjaUs statue, greatest and the last—?had not then slipped from my pen. The statue of JohnMarshall, long delayed and missed, had not been placed toinspire Randolphs quaintly vigorous lines, beginning:
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