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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Part I. (search)
re in recording this noble act, because Lieutenant Chalaron was from New Orleans (also my own beloved home). The impulse of selfsacrifice, and of chivalrous devotion towards the helpless and suffering, sprung from a heart pulsating with the knightly blood of the Creole of Louisiana. Ah, that impetuous blood which stirred at the first call to arms, which was poured out in continual libations to Southern liberty, from the time it gushed from the breast of the first martyr of the war (our Charlie Dreux), until almost in the last ditch, piled high with masses of Confederate dead, lay the gory body of Oscar Dreux, the very topmost man, proving how invincible was the courage that quailed not at the sight of that ghastly altar of sacrifice! The large brick court-house in the centre of the town of Ringgold was especially devoted to my use. The court-room occupying the entire upper floor was fitted up for fifty patients. This was facetiously called the nursery, and its occupants Mrs. Bee