"Stranger things than that might happen to you; somebody might have recognized you--some old schoolmate, for example--and yet might have sworn that you are a Carolinian. Was it known to everybody at school that you were from the North?"
"I think it was, at first; but not in my last years there; of course, some of the boys knew it."
"Besides," said the Doctor, "there is more than one Northern man in the Confederate army--men who moved South before the war."
"Yes, I suppose so; but I cannot understand them."
"They have acquired homes, and think they must defend their homes; that is all, at least so far as concerns those of them who reason, and the others don't count."
"They might at least be neutral," I said.
"How could they think that being neutral would defend their homes?"
"And you think that the Southern people really believe their homes in danger?"
"No doubt of it--and they are right. Have you not already seen more than one Southern home destroyed?"
"Yes, here where the war is; but the average home in the South, far away from the armies."