. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . s agin your kind. Why did you do it? You were hungry, and asked me for food. I have a betterreason than that, even. I am but a girl, but I had a littlebrother younger than I, the idol of our home, who went to war,as a bugler. He was so frail and boyish that they wouldntenlist him as an able-bodied soldier, but he would go. He was •68 A REMINISCENCE. wounded and taken prisoner in the Battle of the Wilderness,carried to Andersonville, where he died. I made a solemnpromise
. The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union . s agin your kind. Why did you do it? You were hungry, and asked me for food. I have a betterreason than that, even. I am but a girl, but I had a littlebrother younger than I, the idol of our home, who went to war,as a bugler. He was so frail and boyish that they wouldntenlist him as an able-bodied soldier, but he would go. He was •68 A REMINISCENCE. wounded and taken prisoner in the Battle of the Wilderness,carried to Andersonville, where he died. I made a solemnpromise to my own heart that never, while life lasted, would ahuman being ask me for food in vain, even though I took thefood from my own lips to give him. I will keep my are welcome to all I have given you. May you never want. The man looked down at her, and in a choked voice said:Maam, may I take you by the hand? She held out both hands toward him, and as he graspedthem and reverently bent over them, a tear dropped on theirwhiteness, and he walked quickly away into the silence anddarkness of the night. ^lDSHJP/^£. THE LITTLE BLACK COW. AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.
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