We had to traverse quite half a mile of it before attaining a place of safety.

Two weeks later we were separated for nearly two years, when, the war over, we found ourselves at home again.
In the meantime her father had fallen in the fight, and in the far South I had buried him.

He was one of the most eminent and distinguished and altogether the best beloved of the Tennesseeans of his day, Andrew Ewing, who, though a Democrat, had in high party times represented the Whig Nashville district in Congress and in the face of assured election declined the Democratic nomination for governor of the state.

A foremost Union leader in the antecedent debate, upon the advent of actual war he had reluctantly but resolutely gone with his state and section.
V The intractable Abolitionists of the North and the radical Secessionists of the South have much historically to answer for.

The racial warp and woof in the United States were at the outset of our national being substantially homogeneous.