This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... due reflection concluded thus: We shall owe our deliverance to personal influence on the Yankee soldiery, there being no other defence to look to, with our men all gone and every appliance relating to firearms bidder, out of sight. Plainly we could not hope, unaided, to exert this electric influence over unknown masse ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ... due reflection concluded thus: We shall owe our deliverance to personal influence on the Yankee soldiery, there being no other defence to look to, with our men all gone and every appliance relating to firearms bidder, out of sight. Plainly we could not hope, unaided, to exert this electric influence over unknown masse-of impracticable Yankees, Dutch, Italians, Irish, Russians, Prussians, Poles, Ausirians and Hottentots; for the motley collection represented all nations known upon tlio earth, mixed up with "hundred-day men." Evidently we could not expect to sway this multitude without tho powerful support of our now black alpacas." The war has now so long passed by, and all its features become dimmed--fading paler ami paler as tho years roll on--that I verily believe tbore are tonight men and women n this Southern land (particularly among the rising generation) who fail to comprehend the full significance of that term as known to the female Confederate--her "new black alpaca." How these words thrilled her inmost being! 'These cherished and almost, adored garments were procured from foreign hinds at great risk and with an outlay of untold Confederate dollars. Prized above rubies, every hook-andeye seemed to us a gem--the very silk that sewed them like our heart strings--and now a deliberate proposal to expose these--these of all else--to the ruthless hand of the invader? The crisis was tremendous, but our magnanimity arose equal to it. We did, in actual fact, array ourselves in the black alpacas, arranged our several hairs with exact nicetv, and, in lieu of breastpins, which we feared the rapacity of the combined nationalities might not be able to withstand, we wore neat black bows, embroidered for the occasion, in white, and not calc...
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