. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . Ruins of Fort Blanchard, Roanoke Island. Wreck of the Cumberland PLATE XXXI THE LONG ROLL might never have the presumption to speak. Ladies who comein their carriages, dressed in rustUng silks, with tender, white,tapering fingers which seemed never to have been formed totouch anything other than the keys of the pianoforte, doingUttle commonplace things here and there for him, trying tofind out and to comply with his slightest wish—this is indeeda reward that is worth all the hardships, danger and terro
. The long roll : being a journal of the civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 . Ruins of Fort Blanchard, Roanoke Island. Wreck of the Cumberland PLATE XXXI THE LONG ROLL might never have the presumption to speak. Ladies who comein their carriages, dressed in rustUng silks, with tender, white,tapering fingers which seemed never to have been formed totouch anything other than the keys of the pianoforte, doingUttle commonplace things here and there for him, trying tofind out and to comply with his slightest wish—this is indeeda reward that is worth all the hardships, danger and terror ofthe battlefield. For there is great satisfaction in knowing thatyou deserve this from the greatest ladies in the land—greatbecause they are true and good. Mrs, Valentine Mott, theprincipal lady of the institution, is a pleasant-looking woman,and that she is good need not be asked. Hers is a face that willnever grow old. Her character can be partially judged from alittle incident I witnessed. I had taken dinner with the boysand had just gotten interested in a game of checkers with FrankVallade,* who had been wounded in b
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