Chapters (56)
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Note
- Introduction
- Book One: The Woman and the Buzzards
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Book Two: Elijah’s Army
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Book Three: The Chambersburg Pike
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Book Four: July First
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Book Five: Stars Cease to Shine on the Brave
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Bibliography
- About the Author
Fernando Wood. It was a very foolish name—Fernando. She didn’t want to read about him, she was weary of seeing his name in the papers. Among army surgeons, there were one hundred vacancies which should be filled at once. Foes of the legal tender notes prepare denunciatory campaign. Fernando Wood. A Life of Chopin, by F. Liszt, had just been published … She read about it, a column and a half. Brandy Station, Beverly Ford, Brandy Station, and latest advices from vicinity of Vicksburg. Religious serve for contrabands in Camp at Alexandria, Va. The Chief Executive replies to critics in case of Mr. Fernando Wood.
A girl she had known in Philadelphia—Miss Alice Springer—had been married to Mr. Barnabas Veatch of Northampton, Mass. Mr. Veatch served for some months with the Massachusetts volunteers until compelled to resign his commission due to ill health & wounds, and was now engaged in commercial pursuits. Two lives lost in the burning of storehouse, Bleecker street, in New York City. Pathetic Tale Recounted by Ohioan. Finds dying son among wounded in a railway station. His Last Words. Provisions bring high prices in Rocky Mountain town: an account of his journey by titled English visitor. General Halleck declares ambulance system as suggested is an unnecessary novelty. And inexpedient to introduce into our army administration at this time. Fernando Wood, Fernando Wood.
Governor Andrew Curtin has urged a Careful Watch on Our Southern Frontier. Would arm citizens at first threat of invasion. But Held Unlikely. And if you’d be relieved or spared from ills that crush the unprepared, Hostetter’s Bitters use—for note: They are the surest antidote.
Then she knew that she had been asleep, long asleep, with the papers matting over her and the candles shrunken to dribbling stubs of tallow. How long she had slept, she did not know. The house was quiet. The same dog which barked each night, was wow-wowing up near McPherson’s woods, and Cybo gave supercilious sniffs in reply from the back porch.
Irene folded the papers, puffed out the candles and swung both shutters back against the wall. It was hotter and the window sill was dry; it had not rained yet. Two windows of the Bale house shown, miniature oblongs of saffron, and there was one light up at the seminary … She thought of the field which stretched down toward Bale’s: a sloping rug of grass and clustered shrubs and thickets where tiny enameled insects shuttled back and forth in the blackness. Another field, another field.