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sickness received gentle and healing ministrations from the hands of Mrs. Beers, and learned just then that she was present, in defiance of all order, rushed to the stand and gathered about her. Each and every one bore the mark of some wound received in the war, and wore about their person some fragment of Confederate uniform—a hat, a coat, or other article—as souvenirs of the days of trials and glory.
Like old children they gathered around her, grasping her hand and blessing her and testifying to all the world what a blessing she had been to them.
It was, indeed and truly, the most touching and striking incident of the late reunion of Confederate veterans at Dallas.
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