Savannah morning news., 1886-06-30


h lady, had beautiful silk quilt and
"a TO tease her by telling her 1t was
gdnished SO carefully to be taken by
s8m fIakider and appropriated as saddle
ket. and once after the occupation OF
,ne eIehb0ring city of N by the
rale troops, she actually took her
lHG TO the well announcing her deter
il ton to throw it in on the first ap-
ea ance of Federal trooper. Iremem-
ls ihatthis struck me as happy Thought
ers, and l mentally resolved to SEND
a ear Bible 10 keep it company. But
a7, ug TO our distance from the main lines
kvel, they didn't come 80 l nave my
with its record still. What
a'aa ed ray of light she was to US IN tne
days that followed the downfall or
q COniederaey. often for days no smile
7-r-s-vht would come over her fathers or
aei grandfather's face, except as she
sud chase away the gloom with her
,a II baby smiies She is now robed with
.ents Of light and safe in our Fathers
q Ie on High,. away from wars, with
I leir attendant tram of evils, and yet,
% yes must ever fill and my heart grow
f8F as look over this page of my old
here is a strange, queer-looking
hing in this same old drawer, toy,
lt ike Of which no Yankee baby has
r4 haa, ween with all the boasted In
rc ity OF that land. 1t is only Con-
lste ate baby rattle. The dear grand
Q0 er said the precious baby must have
q tle, and in the year 1865 no rattle or
alli ms were sent down to us from the
lan0 of wooden nutmegs, 80 plated
sonc palmetto such as we made hats of
sa1 be grandmother sewed 1t together
ano outa handle to it and put old buttons
auG mall pieces Of tin in it, and it was
rattle and our baby loved 1t, and
leVer willing to give up, after the
s- s came and one was bought and
8iv 20 her. It was put carefully away,
the baby was gone, and is looked at
now, relic of the sweet little one,
[ the blessed grandmother, whose
( heart taught her this ingenuity, as
ie loving hearts of so many other
women teach them TO minister" in
way TO the comfort and pleasure Of
they loved. ! often think, especi-
Fhen June comes around with its
and flowers TO gladden. our land, of
hday party this same grandmother
to one Of my little girls, for she
continue to keep the childreD's
lays, although there where no dolls |
)nger to be bought and no white |
sugar for the frosted cakes. The little |
girl-her grandmOther's special pet and
nanesake-was 4 that last June, and l |
SAID, "MOther, it is no use TO talk of birth
day parties any longer" But the grand
mother, like most Of our women, had her
own ideas; so she had cakes made,
sweetened with sorghum syrup and candy
made of sorghum we used to call it 10
Browns mOlasses. because of his procla-
nation ordering everybody in Georgia to
make it, and at the same time telling us
we must eat just enough to sustain life
and nothing more, and to save enough to
feed our soldiers. l haven't read his
''Life and Times" yet, and don't suppose
this is in it, though it is
true history, nevertheless, and
beg you will excuse the inter-
polation, for just can't help thinking of
Senator Joseph e. Brown whenever ]
think of sorghum m0lasses). Besides |
this, she had raspberries and cream served |
in dainty little glass dishes, while behind |
each child's chair stood her little dusky |
maid, waiting to he served by their little |
mistresses with their part as soon as the |
children ate. After the repast was over, |
each child with her big rag doll and little |
negro nurse went out for play on the |
lawn, happy party. By the next June |
the little maidens owned no slaves. Each |
little girl must take care OF her own doll. |
But those little ones were vet young. and |
sit is better to bear the yoke in your
YOUTH" so the good book says. That lit |
tie 4-year-Old girl is now happy wife and |
mother, but that last Confederate birth |
day OF hers is still kept among the treas
Ured wealth of youthful memories. But |
what queer looking things are these I find |
in my old book? They are simply q few |
old Confederate buttons. such as we wore |
in those days in our hOmespun dresses. !
They are really the seeds of persimmOns, !
and needed no shaping, no CLOSING over,
no preparation in any way, save simply
to bore two or three or four holes in
them according to taste, so as to have |
them ready to be seweG on. The Psrsimmon
tree furnished fruit from which we used |
to make very good beer, and necessity for
buttons shafpened out wits, SO it occurred
20 some of US to use the seeds for but |
tons, and strong and durable ones they
made, and neat ones, TOO. Some times we
were brass buttons, too. ] we'll remem-
Der basque, as we call them now, but
then il was "cavalry Jackst."-I had |
during our war-it was made OF an cid I!
braadclOth coat of my fathers. The coat |
was not very old either, but somehow
broadclOth looked unsuitable and out of |
place IN those days. Oar men who stayed |
at home preferred to wear gray jeans, like |
their boys in the feld. rs We preferred |
homespun to our old silk dresses. So my |
father laid aside his coat, and j made me |
cavalry jacket and trimmed it with |
brass buttons, and that fall when my |
husband DdQ DtSn tIdueiSfTeu 10 Tue lcn- |
nessee army. and 1 was allowed to visit |
him in village in East Tennessee, where |
he was in command OF a post, L bought |
me long purple riding-skirt, and with |
my old hat shaped over and trimmed in |
ante-bellum plumes, my cavalry jacket /
made me nice riding-habit.
Every afternoon, when the days duties |
were over, We would take pleasant ride
over the hills and valleys of that part of |
our country, which has been apprOpri-
ately styled the Switzerland OF AmeIi-
ca" AS look back 10 that bright Octo-
Der, spent so delightfully."- with my dear
husband, from whom i had been so mach
separated. It seems indeed as bright
ear is in the dreary waste OF years. One
afternoon we met many wagons, artillery
wagons and some scattering troopers.
Disheartened and discouraged men they
were, and some "swearing ike troopers"
too, over the muddy roads. II was part
OF Gen. Bragg's army falling back after
the disastrous advance into kentucky,
and IL seemed TO me, II ever IL was par
d0nable TO ''swsar like a trooper" that
was the day, and that the hour.
III.
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