I'd like to get rid, too, of about ten pounds of Mississippi mud that I'm carrying." "Well, I can catch a glint of white pillars through those trees.
It means the 'big house' of a plantation, and you'll probably find somewhere back of it the long rows of cabins, inhabited by the dark people, whom we've come to raise to the level of their masters, if not above them.

I can see right now the joyous welcome we'll receive from the owners of the big house.

They'll be standing on the great piazza, waving Union flags and shouting to us that they have ready cooling drinks and luxurious food for us all." "It's hardly a joke to me.

Whatever the cause of the war, it's the bitterness of death for these people to be overrun.

Besides, I remember the words of that old fellow in the blacksmith shop before we fought the battle of Stone River.