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John James Geer, Beyond the lines: A Yankee prisoner loose in Dixie, Introduction. (search)
Introduction.
John James Geer was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, June 1st, 1833.
He is next to the youngest of a family of nine children.
The father emigrated to Ohio when John was quite young, and settled in Shelby county, where he lived and labored as an industrious farmer for a long lifetime.
Being in moderate circumstances, he was unable to educate his children as he wished, as their young hands were an indispensable help in the clearing and tilling of the land; but the lads wrought for themselves a training and discipline in the fields, and at the fireside, such as made honest-hearted heroes of them.
Though this tuition may not be the most fashionable, it is far from being the least useful or influential in a nation like ours.
The only external polish that will never grow coarse is the out-shining of inward purity and kindness.
The law of love is a sufficient code of politeness and etiquette.
The rarest soul-furnishing, and the most radiant and reliable loy