An historical sketch of the Acadians, their deportation and wanderings, together with a consideration of the histotical basis for Longfellow'a poem Evangeline; . s andparents, they refused to move. Cries of grief andanger, mingled with tears and pleadings for mercy,prayers and petitions, rent the balmy air of thatbright September day. All that they asked was thatColonel Winslow would carry out his promise, madein the church on the day of their incarceration, thatfamilies should not be separated. The next command was: Fix bayonets—Charge! —a most powerful incentive to moveunarmed men. And now b
An historical sketch of the Acadians, their deportation and wanderings, together with a consideration of the histotical basis for Longfellow'a poem Evangeline; . s andparents, they refused to move. Cries of grief andanger, mingled with tears and pleadings for mercy,prayers and petitions, rent the balmy air of thatbright September day. All that they asked was thatColonel Winslow would carry out his promise, madein the church on the day of their incarceration, thatfamilies should not be separated. The next command was: Fix bayonets—Charge! —a most powerful incentive to moveunarmed men. And now began one of the saddestprocessions the bright sun of heaven ever lookeddown upon. From the church they moved down theroad to the landing, singing hymns, praying and cry-ing as each might be affected. On either side of theroad stood their mothers, sisters and sweethearts,wringing their hands in despair. The same scenewas repeated when the older men were marched downto the boats, until the entire male population ofMinas was on board the transports. The numberembarked the first day was two hundred and thirty. All day the boats plied between the ships and. Their Deportation and Wanderings. 99 the shore. This expression is better understoodwhen we remember that the tides in the Bay ofFundj and the Basin of Minas rise from thirty tosixty feet, and that at low tide the vessels were somemiles out in the basin. On the shore, without homeor shelter, crouched the women and children abouttheir few household goods; there, too, were the agedand infirm, many forced from beds of sickness to dieon the sands of the shore, and there be hastily buried. Thus to the Gaspereaus mouth moved on that mournful pro-cession. There disorder prevailed, and the tumult and stir of embark-ing. Busily plied the freighted boats; and in the confusion Wives were torn from their husbands, and mothers, too late,saw their children Left on the land, extending their arms, with wildest en-treaties. So unto separate s
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