Mrs.Barclay heard from Miss Lucy and through her kept track of Philemon Ward, who was transferred to another regiment after he was made major.

And when he was made a colonel at Shiloh, there were tear blots on Miss Lucy's letter that told of it, and after Appomattox he was brevetted a general.

As for Captain Culpepper, he came home a colonel, and Jake Dolan came home a first lieutenant.

But Watts McHurdie came home with a letter from Lincoln about his song, and he was the greatest man of all of them.
It is odd that Sycamore Ridge grew during the war.

Where the people came from, no one could say--yet they came, and young Barclay remembered even during the war of playing in the foundations and running over the rafters of new houses.