Random Recollections (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tinctly remember the little negro boys who were my boon companions. On Sundays, my uncle being a strict Presbyterian, I was denied the pleasure of their society, being only permitted to watch them through the paling fence which surrounded the home, while they roamed with joy and freedom over the whole farm. Despite my youth this visit left an indelible impress upon my mind, because it was there that my mother died. My impressions of my mother consist of faint memories, blended with traditions, and the accounts of those who knew her. The composite picture is that of a woman of gentle, yet dignified presence; a face of rare sweetness and refinement,?gray eyes and chestnut hair. Sympathetic and capable, with a large endowment of common sense; deeply religious, living in conscious nearness to the unseen. From the far-away past comes the subtile sense of her tender care, and the sweet picture of this sainted woman, strong in faith and love, offering up prayers for her boys. From Boutetourt my little brother and I were carried in the fall of 1863?I cannot recall how or by whom? to Richmond. Here my father, no longer in the army but holding some official place with the Confederate chapter{Section 4Government, sought to establish a home and gather around him all his children. My experiences and trials in the capital of the Confederacy during the last eighteen months of the war will form the recitals of the next chapter. CHAPTER II War Times in Richmond HE most distinct impression left upon my mind of this period?the last eighteen months of the war?is that of cold and hunger. There were certainly many days of light and sunshine, and doubtless many times when I had enough and to spare, but these occasions have nearly all been effaced by the other and more distinct memor...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tinctly remember the little negro boys who were my boon companions. On Sundays, my uncle being a strict Presbyterian, I was denied the pleasure of their society, being only permitted to watch them through the paling fence which surrounded the home, while they roamed with joy and freedom over the whole farm. Despite my youth this visit left an indelible impress upon my mind, because it was there that my mother died. My impressions of my mother consist of faint memories, blended with traditions, and the accounts of those who knew her. The composite picture is that of a woman of gentle, yet dignified presence; a face of rare sweetness and refinement,?gray eyes and chestnut hair. Sympathetic and capable, with a large endowment of common sense; deeply religious, living in conscious nearness to the unseen. From the far-away past comes the subtile sense of her tender care, and the sweet picture of this sainted woman, strong in faith and love, offering up prayers for her boys. From Boutetourt my little brother and I were carried in the fall of 1863?I cannot recall how or by whom? to Richmond. Here my father, no longer in the army but holding some official place with the Confederate chapter{Section 4Government, sought to establish a home and gather around him all his children. My experiences and trials in the capital of the Confederacy during the last eighteen months of the war will form the recitals of the next chapter. CHAPTER II War Times in Richmond HE most distinct impression left upon my mind of this period?the last eighteen months of the war?is that of cold and hunger. There were certainly many days of light and sunshine, and doubtless many times when I had enough and to spare, but these occasions have nearly all been effaced by the other and more distinct memor...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

48

ISBN-13

978-1-4589-6341-3

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9781458963413

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1-4589-6341-1



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