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which stood the estate he had acquired by marriage with his Virginia wife. He seemed eager to purge from his nature all taint of its ancient Virginianism, and to be known only as the unforgiving enemy of all he had professed to love, and the scorner and contemner of all he had professed to admire and venerate. The war was begun, and it begun and moved on in a different manner from that which Brooks and the rest of the North anticipated. Expeditions up the James river did not prosper. Wilton, the old estate of Mrs. Brooks, remained in Confederate hands. Even its chicken coops, and those of the neighboring residences, were safe from the Yankee foe. The first trial of strength between the two belligerents came off at Bethel, and the Northern army was driven in disgrace from the field. Then came the great battle of Manassas, and the North was hurled to the depth of humiliation by the most unexpected and disastrous results of that great encounter. Mr. Seward's ninety-days' bills