Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1913-01-17
2 Stirring Story OF Military Adventure and 4
StE of Strange Wartime Wooins Founded "
y on the Great Play Of the Same Name =
By BRONSON HOWARD AND HENRY TYRRELL
Illustrations From Actual Wartime Photographs by Brady
COPYRIGHT. 1912 BY G. p PurNAms SONS

to lead to but one logical conclusion
that war or something very like it was
imminent But love ouranked logic,
in that particular camp at least
At the very opening Of the campaign
the casualties took In Kerchival Yves:
and his demure, dark eyed sister Made
line; also, as mutual offsetting to this
pair, the gallant Bob Ellingham anc
his sister Gertrude. the latter spir'
tied girl. with warm bronze hair be
fitting her emotional temperament and
vivid complexion to match.
The first cloud that appeared In thi,
roseate sky was Edward Thornton.
Thornton was rather handsome fel
low in his insolent way and few
years older than the two lieutenants-
that is to say. he was close upon thirty
He had more than the assurance OF
manner that such advantage might
perhaps be expected to give htm-espe
cially with Mrs. Haverill, the colonies
wife.
The young people frankly did not like
Thornton, though none Of them had
said 80. and probably any or all Of
them would have denied the charge
had 1t been made.
Meanwhile DR.. Ellingham and the
colonel and Mrs. Haverill and the
Pinckneys (South Carolina relatives OF
the EllinghamO saw graver portents
than sentimental ones on the near hori.
zon- Their conr ersati turned upon
questions Of state sovereignty. the "old
flag" and rights az to secession from
the Union.
"If the interests Of your manufacture
ing and shipping states Of the north
observed DR.. Ellingham. land of our
agricultural and cotton states of the
south are not running in harmony, that
is no excuse for family quarrel"
II quite agree with you." said Colo
mel HaVerill ut is al awkward thing
for q soldier to take sides in such q
! dispute. Theoretically we don't have
! to. The government settles all that fol
us, and we simply obey orders. fee
confident they will find remedy fol
the present break as they have fol
other and perhaps worse ones In the
past. II it were not for the slavery
question:
"Ah," sighed the southern conserva
tive. III | owned the i.00O,000 slaves
would gladly give them all up for the
preservation of the Union"
"Well, your friend, Major Rutfin. GER
tainly has more decided opinions or
| the subject than both of us put togeth
ar," laughed Haverill, making the Gus
,omary effort to divert the converse.
| Hon into lighter channels.
Ruffin was a striking character. typ,
ical Of the time. They met him after.
Moons at the Charleston hotel or on q
sunny morning walking by the Bat
terry sea wall. gazing out across the
harbor to where the Sumter fortress
reared its forty foot walls on an arti
fetal island built on the shoals. This
was one Of the important Notifications
of the seeding states whose status IN
relation to the federal government was
In ominous dispute
"Sir." Ruffin would say impressiye!y
IF the status of these federal forts IL
the seeded states IL not yet determ!n
ed, it Is high time 1t should be- II
IN appeal to arms IL necessary, and !
can see that 1t is. sooner or later, let
1t come right here and now"
But, major" Colonel Haverill would
protest, II understood you were Vir
ginian7 Virginia has not seeded"
"Not yet. but she will-she must
am. as you say. sir. virginlan born.
But this hanging fire is SO little to my
taste, sir, that have sold my Virginia
property and cast my allegiance with
South Carolina for the present. have
enlisted with the state troops here, and
I await any minute General Beaure-
CARDS call to the batteries he Is plant
ing all around Sumter"
Major Rufan was q white haired. ell.
derry man, sixty years old II day. In
his fiery fanatical zeal there was some