The Civil War Anniversary Quilts by Rosemary Youngs

Author:Rosemary Youngs [Youngs, Rosemary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4402-1875-0
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

BLOCK 85: NAVAL VICTORY

Block pattern on page 215

UNEXPECTED VISITOR

November 26, 1861 My seventeenth birthday; I cannot but think of my last birthday and the retrospection makes me sad, how many changes have taken place since then, how short the time seems, and yet in that short time our infant Confederacy has sprung up, where are now the enemies who boasted that we should be hushed into quietness as easily as the Mother hushes a fretful babe! There is much, very much to be thankful for, why does my heart ever cry more?

But my birthday has been very pleasant, and enlivened by an unexpected visitor, yesterday morning Lory came and said that there was a buggy coming with a lady in black, and a negro man in it, we could not imagine who it could be, the lady stopped at the gate and Emmeline went down to see her, she soon came up, saying that it was a lady traveler who wished to stop eight or ten days. Mother exclaimed “We cannot take her in, our family is too large, we are expecting a teacher, and haven’t any room, go down and tell her I can’t possibly take her, show her the way over to Mr. Adams’ ” so saying Mother hurried out upon the piazza, but what was her horror to see the buggy driving off and the lady traveler walking up to the house. “What could Emmeline mean by letting the buggy go off, who knows who she might be,” but when the lady arrived about half way up to the house I heard Mother exclaim “isn’t that Mrs. Horne,” and, sure enough it was, we were very glad to see her; she and Mr. Horne had just come to Vicksburg to attend to some business and are going back to Georgia to spend the winter.

Captain Smith, one of the directors in the railroad came down Sunday night, he went away, this morning, Father has been trying again to buy Mrs. Richardson’s place, he wrote up to Captain Smith to try and buy it for him, but he could not succeed, he is now going to try and buy five or six acres to put the house on, it is not framed yet, and Father wants to move it over on the place we first selected, that is, if he can buy enough land to put kitchen and outhouses upon. The weather is quite pleasant now, it rained last night, and has been a little cloudy today.

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