Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-08-14

to share my future and make it one
happy stream of continued pleasure
What Is this have said? 1 ask that
beautiful, peerless one to share my
lot? What would she say? / love
her with my whole heart, and yet
have known her but a couple OF
weeks, but they have been more than
twenty-four years of my previous
life. OF late am given to building
air castles, Memory oft turns tolook
over the waste of time and scan in
the horizon Of the past an index to
the rising sun of the future. If our
childhood has been passed in the
rough school Of adversely, If poverty
and hunger have attended our foot
steps in youth, If the falseness of
friends has betrayed us in our man.
hood, our future is a dark, gloomy
vacuum. But If our pathway has
been over one continued bed of roses
plucked Of their thorns, If friends
have been constant, fortune been true,
every wish been gratified, the future
then Is an unbroken vision, as bright
as the roseate hues of a May morn.
Let usdraw the sable curtain around
that household and hasten TO the
camp as It is near day. Andrews
brigade was composed of as gallant
men as ever wore the gray. They
attested their devotion at Donelson,
at Jackson, at New Hope, at Kene-
saw, Marietta, Atlanta, Franklin,
Nashville, Pulaski, and their fire was
quenched at Bentonville. There all
that they had shed their precious
blood for was lost.
But to return to Cargill. AS he
comes into the camp we see that his
men are justly proud of him. They
told him that General Anderson in
tended sending some men home to
bring out recruits, clothing and let
tiers for his soldiers. He offered to
send Cargill home as one of the de.
tail, but he refused to go, and begged
the General to send married man
in his place, giving as a reason, that
he had no family, they had, and IL
was his duty to stay with his compa-
ny. Much of Cargill's time was oc-
cupied in perfecting his men in that
discipline that is so essential to q SOL
dier's success. He frequently rode out
to Cottage Hill, and he and Gissie
would take long horse back rides
He would accompany her to reviews,
in visiting the Notifications, and IL
was In this manner that the summer,
fall and winter passed. Upon one oc-
casion when they were out riding, the
conversation turned upon the congen.
iality of spirits. OWL
II believe that the spirits of those
whom we love hover around us and
often protect us from impending dan.
ger, by giving US warning Of what
threatens"
~ have often thought that myself
Captain, and believe the spirits o.
those whom we love, will stay with
us and give us a premonition of any
evil that may threaten them. Fol
instance, the evening my brother Os
Car was wounded, I felt rs II some,
thing serious had happened or was
about to happen to some one of oul
family, and the next mail brought u.
the news of Malvern Hill, and in Q
short time we heard that our brother
was seriously hurt"
"Then, Miss Gissie, you believe
that it does not require one to be dead
50 that they may become a spiritual
protector, or one that will hover
aronnd u.s."
"No, sir; I think it is the congeni
atty or spiritual affinity that We hav.
for each other, that brings this condi
ton Of things about, and does not re-
; quire that our spirits should be frcet
from the body by DEATH"
"Then the "soldier lad" who hai
the free wealth of love of pur,
and confiding heart, ever has til,
spirit of his ladylove lowering arount
his head; every breeze that rustic
around his pillow brings him greet
ing from her; that If danger threat
, ems him, her little heart like the sen
sitive plant, feels the first touch o
pain, or shrinks from the danger h
has to face"
mo, Captain, you do us injustice
true we are timid, but when DANCE
threatens those we love, no one ha
a stronger heart than wonan.o
III beg your pardon for even init
mating that which do not believe
: for know the most heroic deeds W
have on record, have been done b,
/, women. But to return, please tell m
II you hold to this doctrine Of Psy
,, chology where kindred spirits NEE
long before the bodies have becom
acquainted~
~ do not know that l fully under
! stand YOU"
at is this, have you never fell
while in company Of many Of eithe
sex, that there was some one else tina
: you would like to see. You woul
involuntarily look around hoping tina
some one would enter; yet at the sam
: time you could not have told who
was you wished TO see, but there wa
c a void In your heart that could onl
! be filled by some one, and yet 20
could not tell why 1t was, or wha
caused it,"
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