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evening. Her father was not at home, but she immediately
caught a horse, and was soon off in search of him.

"She found him at a neighbor's and told him to hurry on
home and get his gun, and come here to help drive back the
enemy. She then returned home, got down her father's rifle,
moulded all his lead into bullets, took the gun, powder and bul-
lets, and hid them under the house, again mounted the horse,
and rode to several houses and spread the alarm, returning home
in time to give the old man his gun and ammunition and started
him with a crowd of ten men she had collected for the scene of
action. All this she did in less than two hours. Such acts ©f

heroism should not be passed by without notice.

This same scrap-book has this comment on the weather:

"The weather is as cold as a Yankee's heart, and as dis-
agreeable as his company; as blustering as he is before a battle,
and as dismal as he is after one."

There are many newspaper accounts of battles, with private
letters from soldiers, on the same subjects which the papers were
permitted to print. There was also the speech of Miss Lucy
Lorraine Adams, presenting a flag to the Moro Greys, Calhoun

county, and of Miss Elizabeth Higginbotham, presenting a flag
to the Jackson Minute Men.

LONG WAY FROM HEADQUARTERS.

A Texas soldier, trudging along one day all alone, met a

Methodist circuit rider and at once recognized him as such,

but affected ignorance of it. "What army do you belong to?"

—asked the preacher. "I belong to the th Texas regiment, Van

Dorn's army," replied the soldier.

"What army do you belong to ?"

"I belong to the army of the Lord," was the solemn reply.

my"Well, then, friend," said the soldier, "you are a long

way from headquarters."