“I had no time to go for orders. Why didn’t you order in the hay and the cotton?”
“I did not think of it.”
“Well, I did, and used all I needed; and now all you have to do is to draw an order for them and give it to the quartermaster.”
She bade the officers good-day and returned to her work, and no one thought of arresting her. Indeed, she had the best of the argument.
Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, or “Mother Bickerdyke” as the boys used to call her, was one of the most energetic and faithful workers of the war. Her fidelity to duty, and her untiring efforts for the comfort of the sick and wounded, have endeared her to her co-laborers and to the old soldiers whom she blessed. She now, 1894, lives in quiet and comfort with her son, Professor Bickerdyke, Russell, Kan.
A FIGHTING EDITOR.
IN the spring of 1861, Dr. Charles Elliott edited The Central Christian Advocate, in the third story of a business block in St. Louis, Mo.
The Southern Christian Advocate, which represented the views of the South, was at the time published in the second story of the same building.
The two editors, who had always been personally friendly to each other, were wide apart on the great question of disunion, which was stirring the hearts of the people.