. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. ey would not serve Englishtea to American soldiers. This was the origin of that distinctiveclass of Tea party in our vernacular dialect. Now.—In the great work of reconciliation and peace betweenthe sections; in the union of the Blue and Gray in perpetuationof the era of good feeling and fellowship in the great work ofgeneral amnesty to rehabilitate a common country under a commonflag and a common destiny, recently it has been the custom of theCamps and Army Posts of Northern veterans to invite th
. Westmoreland County, Virginia : parts I and II : a short chapter and bright day in its history. ey would not serve Englishtea to American soldiers. This was the origin of that distinctiveclass of Tea party in our vernacular dialect. Now.—In the great work of reconciliation and peace betweenthe sections; in the union of the Blue and Gray in perpetuationof the era of good feeling and fellowship in the great work ofgeneral amnesty to rehabilitate a common country under a commonflag and a common destiny, recently it has been the custom of theCamps and Army Posts of Northern veterans to invite the South-ern Camps and Confederate Associations North to the of a common hospitality and God-given patriotism. Eecently one of these reunions took place at the North, and asour, censorious, bitter old New England spinster became offendedand inflamed, and sent in a vicious protest to the chairman of theCommittee of Invitation—who was Commander of the Camp—against this mixing up and meeting of Southern veterans. TheCommander read it. and was stung and stirred by the tone and. ^/-^ {7J^. WJA WESTMORELAND COUXTY, V/ROIMA 147 language used. He turned to his wife and said: Wife, how shallI answer this ? The wife replied: Husband, I reckon you knowhow to reply to it. So the next morning the Commander sentthis reply: Dear Miss, there are Confederate soldiers in Heaven,If you do not wish to meet them and to avoid them go to last words are not profane, and if the most fastidious thinkso, it can be truly said it is the least profane way in which theywere ever used, and oh! the genuine satisfaction in uttering true New England woman—gentlewoman—docs not feel likethis old bitter spinster. Whether I am in a banquet hall or at a Confederate Keunion,I never forget the women, and I never fail to refer to the artlesslittle Alabama girl. It is a part of my religion to do so. Theartless little Alabama girl who was guiding General Forrest alonga danger
Size: 1388px × 1801px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthormckimran, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookyear1912
