![]() |
![]() |
odell beckham 2016 pro bowl jersey2020-03-08 13:15:03 odell beckham 2016 pro bowl jerseybayern munich opel jersey ucla bruins gearsan antonio spurs fiesta jersey tennessee vols jersey nikedallas cowboys faux leather jacket
"Oh, I--I wish he wouldn't play cards. Smith, I've seen him play cards with the shells bursting over us!" Major Harper was the most capable officer on the brigade staff. I had never met a man of such force and dignity who was so modestly affable. His new clerk dined with him that first day, at noon in his tent, alone. Hot biscuits! with butter! and rock salt. Fried bacon also--somewhat vivacious, but still bacon. When the tent began to fill with the smoke of his meerschaum pipe, and while his black boy cleared the table for us to resume writing, we talked of books. Here was joy! I vaunted my love for history, biography, the poets, but spoke lightly of fiction. A plague on names! But I was not done with them yet. We met other scouts coming out of the east, who also gave reports and went on westward, sometimes through the trackless woods. At a broad cross-road which spanned the whole State from the Alabama line to the Mississippi River stood another sergeant, with three men, waiting. They were the last. Once more we were in the by-road which had brought us westward parallel with the highway. The prisoner drove. Aunt Martha sat beside him, slim, dark, black-eyed, stately, her silver-gray hair rolled high à la Pompadour. With a magnanimity rare in those bitter days she incited him to talk, first of New Orleans, where he had spent a month in camp on one of the public squares, and then of his far northern home, and of loved ones there, mother, wife and child. The nieces, too, gave a generous attention. Only I, riding beside the hind wheels, held solemnly aloof. "Ferry's scouts. What command is yours, gentlemen?" "My dear Smith," said Miss Rothvelt, "keep your trust. But if I part here with these two kind gentlemen--" Previous:beckham jr limited jersey | ||||
ucla bruins gear| | tennessee vols jersey nike| | hawkeye football jersey | vegas golden knights warm up jersey| | everton gk kit| | juventus kit for children| | real madrid red jersey 2012| | todd gurley georgia jersey| | kurt warner autographed helmet| | ito smith jersey| | bradshaw steelers jersey| | jim plunkett signed jersey| | nfl gronkowski jersey |
|
|