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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Early. (search)
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In the Virginia Convention of 1860-61, when the great struggle for separation took place, and the hot war of tongues preceded the desperate war of the bayonet, there was a gentleman of resolute courage and military experience who made himself prominent among the opponents of secession.
Belonging to the old Whig party, and thinking apparently that the right moment had not yet come, this resolute soldier-politician fought the advocates of the ordinance with unyielding persistence, aiming by his hard-hitting argument, his kindling eloquence, and his parliamentary skill, to give to the action of the Convention that direction which his judgment approved.
Many called him a submissionist, because he opposed secession then; but when the gauntlet was thrown down, this Whig submissionist put on a gray coat, took the field, and fought from the beginning to the very end of the war with a courage and persistence surpassed by no Southerner who took part in the conflict.
When he
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Roslyn and the White house : before and after. (search)
Roslyn and the White house: before and after.
Quantum mutatus ab illo!
That is an exclamation which rises to the lips of many persons on many occasions in time of war.
In 1860, there stood on the left bank of the Chickahominy, in the county of New Kent, an honest old mansion, with which the writer of this page was intimately acquainted.
Houses take the character of those who build them, and this one was Virginian, and un-citified.
In place of flues to warm the apartments, there were big fires of logs.
In place of gas to light the nights, candles, or the old-fashioned astral lamps.
On the white walls there were no highly coloured landscape paintings, but a number of family portraits.
There was about the old mansion a cheerful and attractive air of home and welcome, and in the great fireplaces had crackled the yule clogs of many merry Christmases.
The stables were large enough to accommodate the horses of half a hundred guests.
The old garden contained a mint patch whic