Page 92 - Among the camps, or, Young people's stories of the war

A F T E R this it was pretty well understood that t?ie Baby
Veterans and Middleburgh were at wan
The regu­
lations were more strictly enforced than ever before,
and for a while it looked as if it was going to be as bad as it
was when tlie other regiment was there. Old Limpid, the
old doctor's man, was caught one night with some letters on

his person, several of them addressed to “ Captain Harry
Hunter, Arm y of Northern Virginia,1’ etc,, and was some­
what severely dealt with, though, perhaps fortunately for him
and his master, the letters, one of which was in a feminine
hand, whilst abusive of the soldiers, did not contain any in­
formation which justified very severt- measures, and after a

warning he was set free again*
i^ancy Pansy's sister Ellen was enraged next'day to re-
ceive again her letter from a corporal’s gu;ird, indorsed with
an official stamp, 1J Returned by order,” etc. She actually

cried about it.
Nancy Pansy had written a letter to Harry, too— not her
own Harry, but the old doctor’s— and hers came back also ;
but she did not cry about it, for she had forgotten to tell
Harry that she had a kitten.