In my garden a lily grew, blossoming in snowy purity, fragrant sweetness and stately grace. It held the summer in its golden heart and the love of the angels crowned its radiant petals. It bade me "good-morning" and the dawn was bright with promise. It waved a caress to me in the soft winds of the Junetide noon and the day was filled with light and love. It shone in mystic silver through the moonlight and my night was aglow with dreams.
Thus a Lily-Soul blooms in the garden of my life to make it glad with the glory and fragrance of her blossoming. Many hearts are happy because of the flowers of Love and Hope and Faith which she has planted. Many a life which in its early dawn held little promise of good has grown into usefulness and beauty in the brightness that the Lily-Soul has given of her own loveliness to light the dim pathway.
In cloudy days the whiteness of the Lily-Soul has shone like a star through my darkness and the sunlight in her golden heart has illumined the black veil of sorrow.
La Salle Corbell Pickett.
October 1, 1916.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | "Out of the Everywhere" | [1] |
| II. | The First Prayer | [12] |
| III. | Church Visitors | [19] |
| IV. | My Soldier | [30] |
| V. | A Keepsake for the Angels | [42] |
| VI. | African Royalty | [48] |
| VII. | Our First Currency | [57] |
| VIII. | Yuletide | [64] |
| IX. | Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs | [79] |
| X. | The Breaking of the Storm | [87] |
| XI. | The "Virginia" | [93] |
| XII. | Richmond After Seven Pines | [103] |
| XIII. | My Wounded Soldier | [109] |
| XIV. | The Red Fox | [117] |
| XV. | The Smuggled Bride | [124] |
| XVI. | Bottler, Bottler Up | [133] |
| XVII. | On the Lines | [141] |
| XVIII. | The Amenities | [149] |
| XIX. | The Closing Days | [157] |
| XX. | Suspense | [175] |
| XXI. | "Whoa, Lucy" | [184] |
| XXII. | George Junior's First Greenback | [191] |
| XXIII. | "Skookum Tum-Tum" | [200] |
| XXIV. | Carpet-Bag, Basket and Baby | [207] |
| XXV. | Edwards is Better | [221] |
| XXVI. | One Woman Redeemed Them All | [227] |
| XXVII. | A Familiar Face | [237] |
| XXVIII. | Visitors, Shilling a Dozen—Our Left-Handers | [248] |
| XXIX. | Born with Emeralds—Nemo Nocetur | [261] |
| XXX. | Turkey Island | [273] |
| XXXI. | At the White House | [288] |
| XXXII. | Uncle Tom | [305] |
| XXXIII. | "God's 'tisement" | [314] |
| XXXIV. | Charlotte Cushman | [327] |
| XXXV. | Easter Flowers | [339] |
| XXXVI. | His Last Battle | [352] |