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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, chapter 5 (search)
nterested in his account of Dickens's wife, whom he knows well. He says that she is altogether the most unattractive woman he ever met. She has a yellowish, cat-like eye, a muddy complexion, dull, coarse hair of an undecided color, and a very awkward person. On top of it all she is, he says, one of the most intolerably stupid women he ever met. He has had to entertain her for hours at a time and could never get an idea out of her nor one into her. Think of such a wife for Dickens! Porter Alexander has got home and brings discouraging reports of the state of feeling at the North. After he was paroled he went to see the Brazilian minister at Washington to learn what the chances were of getting into the Brazilian army. He says he met with very little encouragement and had to hurry away from Washington because, since Lincoln's assassination the feeling against Southerners has grown so bitter that he didn't think it safe to stay there. He says the generality of the people at the No
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, V. In the dust and ashes of defeat (may 6-June 1, 1865). (search)
ewall Jackson! They couldn't disgrace it, even if they were to put their own army into it. May 26, Friday Our gentlemen dined out again. I took a ride in the afternoon with Capt. Hudson. He rode father's horse, Mr. Ben, and I took his pony, Brickbat. We played whist after supper, but I don't like cards, and it was stupid. Some of the bank robbers have been caught, and $60,000 in money recovered, but the prisoners were rescued by people living in that part of the county. Gen. Porter Alexander took some of the old Irvin Artillery and went out to arrest such of the guilty ones as could be found. They caught several who were suspected, but while the soldiers were scattered around looking for others, the Danburg people armed themselves and made a rescue. All the money and plate that lives through these troublous times will have strange histories attached to it. One man had $1,000 in specie which he went out to conceal as soon as he heard that the Yankees were in his neighbo
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, chapter 7 (search)
t one. June 5, Monday Went to call on Mrs. Elzey with some of our gentlemen, and talk over plans for a moonlight picnic on Thursday or Friday night; then to see Mrs. Foreman, and from there to the Alexanders. On my return home, found Porter Alexander in the sitting-room, and Garnett came in soon after with Gen. Elzey, who staid to dinner. Mother was dining out, but fortunately I had a good dinnermock turtle soup, mutton chops, roast lamb with mint sauce, besides ham and vegetables. Aftleman with whom Cousin Liza boarded that summer she spent in Carolina before the war, were treated so brutally that Mr. Tupper would not repeat the circumstances even to his wife. Oh, how I do hate the wretches! No language can express it. Mr. Alexander tells me about a friend of his in Savannah who has taught her children never to use the word Yankee without putting some opprobrious epithet before it, as a hateful Yankee, an upstart of a Yankee, a thieving Yankee, and the like; but even thi
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Raid into Onslow. (search)
Proceedings in the Courts. Mayor's Court. Saturday, November 29. --Elizabeth Bowelt, arrested as Bridget Holt, was required to give $200 security for her good behavior, on the charge of assaulting Catharine Byrnes with a paying stone, and using obscene language. Louisa, slave of Porter Alexander, was committed as a runaway. Alice Hardgrove was committed in default of $200 on the charge of trespassing on the Columbian Hotel. It appeared that a man, representing himself as a lieutenant in the army, had introduced and installed her at the hotel as his wife. A discovery of the matter resulted as above. Charles Grace, heretofore required to give security for his good behavior, was surrendered by B. Calligan, his ; and, no other party offering to befriend him, he was sent to jail. Benjamin Courtney, who had been caged Friday night for drunkenness, appeared to answer that charge and the still more serious one of taking $5 from the pockets of Pat McNally, an inmate