Under marching orders : the story of Mary Porter Gamewell . The good times continuedjust the same, for the house was large androomy, and the family large-hearted and hos-pitable. The house faced directly upon anopen common, and not far away was theCourt-house Square. Tall trees marked theirshadows upon the green grass of the com-mon opposite. There was life and stir in thestreets of the town, ^nd on the great riversturdy steamboats towed the heavy barges,which carried flour, grain, and other to a magnet were drawn to this town onthe Mississippi grain from the fields, oresfrom the mi
Under marching orders : the story of Mary Porter Gamewell . The good times continuedjust the same, for the house was large androomy, and the family large-hearted and hos-pitable. The house faced directly upon anopen common, and not far away was theCourt-house Square. Tall trees marked theirshadows upon the green grass of the com-mon opposite. There was life and stir in thestreets of the town, ^nd on the great riversturdy steamboats towed the heavy barges,which carried flour, grain, and other to a magnet were drawn to this town onthe Mississippi grain from the fields, oresfrom the mines, and timber from the forests,while from it manufactured products ofmany kinds were sent to all parts of thenation. Across the broad river to its eastern shore,the Chicago and Eock Island Eailroad hadbuilt a huge drawbridge, the first bridgeacross the Mississippi. By and by, as warbecame inevitable, Davenport, because it wasin the center of things north and south andeast and west, was chosen as a mustering-inplace for Iowa soldiers. North and east of. Maky Puktj;b at T^^?i:L^?l; Yeahs or Aue A GmL IN THE Making 21 the town there sprang up as in a night thetents and bairacks of Caijap McClellan,Camp Eoberts, Camp Hendershott,and others. On Eoek Island, where the gov-ernment arsenal now stands, were built thelarge wooden buildings in which at onetime twelve or fifteen thousand Confederatesoldiers were imprisoned. Exciting talesdrifted through the town, tales of how theprisoners plotted to escape, planning towalk across the river on the ice to the main-land and thus away to freedom, or perchanceback again to battle. So it came to pass that things happened inthe gray house in the square; things fuimy,sad, and eventful, and the heart of them allwas the same merry dreamer of a girl whofollowed fearlessly into the woods, the girlwho always followed fearlessly whereverthere was the call to go. Her hair wasstill curly and golden, though iu the sunlightit had a tinge of red. Sometimes
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