On a dark night like this I could go right up the gullies and through the biggest army in the world without its seein' me." Caesar felt that he was bound to go, and all the officers in turn shook his big rough black hand.

Then they saw him ride away in the darkness, armed with his pass from General Jackson, and on the lookout for any prowling Yankees who might have ventured on the right bank of the river.
"Isn't it odd, Colonel," said Harry to Colonel Talbot, "that so many of our colored people regard the Yankees who are trying now to free them as enemies, while they look upon us as their best friends ?" "Propinquity and association, Harry," replied Colonel Talbot, "and in the border states, at least, we have seldom been cruel to them.

I hope there has been little of cruelty, too, in my own South Carolina.
They are used to our ways, and they turn to us for the help that is seldom refused.

The Northerner will always be a stranger to them, and an unsympathetic stranger, because there is no personal contact, none of that 'give and take' which makes men friends." "What a pity we didn't free 'em ourselves long ago!" "Yes, it is.

I say this to you in confidence now, Harry.