“I know all, sweet sister, all!” he answered, tenderly caressing her.
“He died—as he wished to die—cheering on his men to the charge!—to that gallant charge which, for the time being, turned the tide of battle and almost redeemed the day, even on that fatal field of Manassas!” she sobbed.
“He died a hero’s death; he fills a hero’s grave; he leaves to all posterity a hero’s name!” murmured Justin, lovingly soothing her.
“On, Justin, I think, had there been many leaders like him in our army that day, the defeat had been a victory.”
With the departure of the shipwrecked lovers from the deserted island, that had been their refuge for so long a time, closed the most singular phase in their lives.
With their arrival in their native country to find it in the horrors of civil war, commences for them a career of activity and adventures full
“Of moving accidents by field and flood,
Of hair breadth ’scapes i’ th’ imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe——”