. Book of the Royal blue . lag incidents which tookplace in Frederick. Thehigh social and pro-fessional standing ofCaptain Slade at hishome in Georgia and in the South pre-cludes the slightest possibility that thereis anything save truthful statements madeby him. He is an author of considerablenote, his latest work being a novel, TheBlack Stain, a story of the LouisianaSwamp during the war and extending tothepresentChistoricaland prophetic), point-ing to the first footprints of the deporta-tion of the color and the washing of theblack stain from the land. Captain Sladesexperience at Frederick
. Book of the Royal blue . lag incidents which tookplace in Frederick. Thehigh social and pro-fessional standing ofCaptain Slade at hishome in Georgia and in the South pre-cludes the slightest possibility that thereis anything save truthful statements madeby him. He is an author of considerablenote, his latest work being a novel, TheBlack Stain, a story of the LouisianaSwamp during the war and extending tothepresentChistoricaland prophetic), point-ing to the first footprints of the deporta-tion of the color and the washing of theblack stain from the land. Captain Sladesexperience at Frederick is given in the fol-lowing to the writer: I take pleasure in giving you what I feel satis-fied was the little story out of which Whittier wrotehis poem. In the first place I feel assured that in the scienceof probabilities the same unusual event did not happenat the same time and in the same town to two Con-federate soldiers. I think that what I provoked andexperienced was the basis of whatever story reachedWhittiers BARIiAKA ;iii iiliotd ttiken in 1860. I was marching at the head of and commandingCompany \, 10th Georgia Volunteer.^i, which was infront for the day,conversing with Lieutenant-ColonelTom Sloan, in command of the 3d Georgia Volun-teers, who was riding in rear of his command in Me-Laws Division in General D. H. Hills corps. We hadwadeil the Potomac and were passing through Fred-ericktown, Md., marching by fours. Many ladies sa-luted from yards and porticoes with , atwhich many a rousing shout was jiatriotically re-turned. Finally we came to a street with stores andhouses close on sidewalk, some with broad windows infront as if of trading establishments. We responded to all sorts of greetings, all cheering and pleasant. My heart was very full. The sight of a woman kindled sweet memories of a dear, loving little Louisiana wife and babies refugeeing in Western Georgia. In this mood I discovered on my right a little, plump Dutch girl
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