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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 2 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
r body, which has a joint in every inch of it, like a snake's; every motion is a glide, and her whole form expresses more than anybody's else face. August 16, 1862 Yesterday I went to Lynn, exchanging with Sam Johnson. After tea I went up to a camp meeting of Millerites near there, on a beautiful lake. It was a strange scene, wagons, horses, dogs, rowdy young men, and in the centre a great tent with rows of pale, eager listeners squatting in semicircles among the trees, with tears and Amens. The speakers were earnest and vivid, the people less excited and less intelligent than I expected, but it was the close of the meeting. I found all the types of character I expected there and was glad to have gone (for the first time). I peeped into one of the company tents, with the walls all hung with little carpetbags; and elderly women (not hanging up) packing up duds with tears streaming. . . . I, willing to join in any innocent amusement, took a hand at a round game of spiritual