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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., Introductury (search)
e imagination of the reader the happy meeting between long-parted ones and the many caresses showered upon our child. I had expected nothing better than to spend the night in the ambulance or under a tent, and would have taken great pride in camping out, but the chivalrous officers in command would not hear of such a plan. Their quarters (two rooms in a little log house) were instantly vacated, and I had scarcely descended from the vehicle when a negro man appeared, to bring a message. De Major's compliments, mistis, and de room am ready. I could not have been bidden to a luxurious apartment with more ceremony. The next morning the shrill sound of the fife and the drum beating the reveille aroused us, and we were up with the sun. The scene was entrancing; to me particularly so, for the white tents gleaming among the trees reminded me that I was among Southern soldiers. As they strode to and fro with martial air, fully armed and equipped to answer roll-call, or bent over th