. Book of the Royal blue . be sent for, Mr. Livingston, who worse form than In-fore In- had sci n thewas strong in the Protestant faith, told the priest, .ind he was ; eoinpellcd tosick man no Catholic priest could enter vacate the housi-. Tin farm is now knownhis house; that if it reipiired the services .is Iriestfield. CAVES OF REFUGE. SOME UNIQUE REMINDERS OF WAR TIMES IN MISSISSIPPI. AFIKH a canipainn of six nioiitlis diir-ation and iit-arl> tun iiKintlls vifror-ous sicjff, till (■(iiitVdfiatc hattcriis lit \ ickshiii-i;. Miss., wliicli had attfiiiptt-d to ml) a nation o
. Book of the Royal blue . be sent for, Mr. Livingston, who worse form than In-fore In- had sci n thewas strong in the Protestant faith, told the priest, .ind he was ; eoinpellcd tosick man no Catholic priest could enter vacate the housi-. Tin farm is now knownhis house; that if it reipiired the services .is Iriestfield. CAVES OF REFUGE. SOME UNIQUE REMINDERS OF WAR TIMES IN MISSISSIPPI. AFIKH a canipainn of six nioiitlis diir-ation and iit-arl> tun iiKintlls vifror-ous sicjff, till (■(iiitVdfiatc hattcriis lit \ ickshiii-i;. Miss., wliicli had attfiiiptt-d to ml) a nation of the mostmajestic ri\cr on tllc kUI^- feW, .ind tin-Mississippi was thi()\vn open tortlu unre-stricted eoinnier<-c of the I nited .Statesfrom Cairo to the (uilf. on the fourth isii:;. The total loss of (ieneral (irants armyduring the <ampaiKn has heen ))laced atahout !.()()(), while tile confederates ,(•()() prisoners, inchidinfi fifteen ficneralofficers ; more than 10,01)0 men were killed :. A CAVE OF KEFtlGE. and arms and nuiiiilions of war lor /in .irmyof ( men, tonether «ith public prop-erty consistiii of railroads, locomotives,cars, steamboats, cotton, fell into thehands of the victors. M\ friend, the enemy simply had usliy the of the britciies, said an oldconfederate at \ icksburg. They gave fiiiht, but ;it the sanu- time we kei)tthem down ti> their knittinjr for six lonumonths, .and if we hadnt run so devilishshy on jirul) we mi{;ht have been fiirhtin;;yet. Hut, .as I say, they wiped us out, . .ill that we had left tiiese cellarsand eaves around here, where the timidfellows, old men. women .and children tookrefuije during: the siejie. Ihe boys left these with us as mementoes of the scrap,but, by jinyii, after all these years, IncleSam—and Im on jfood terms with himnow—has come alon;; and swi|)e(l up theList remainiiif; cave and it is included inthe National Park. Rifjht <i\;a\ I am, too
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