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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Tone of bullets. (search)
e old envelopes, letters, cards, and scraps of paper. The following card is a sample of those found on the floor: My friend. It chills my heart to hear the Blest Supreme, Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme: Maintain your rank — vulgarity despise; To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise; You would not swear upon the bed of death. Reflect! Your Maker now may stop your breath. A blood-stained letter, written in a beautiful hand, and signed "Ella J. Burgess," was picked up, and also a letter addressed to Miss Ella, written probably by him whose blood now disfigured its white surface. The men on this side seeing a canal-boat going up, gave the alarm and cautioned us to return. Hastily gathering up all the scraps of paper within reach, and one or two have locks as relics, we hurried back to the shore. It proved a false alarm, but thinking prudence an excellent thing, we demonstrated our possession of it by getting once more into Virgi