The colonel read the order:
Office Provost Marshal, General D. S.,
Charleston, S. C., Feb. 20, 1865.
Special Order No. 1.
The Charleston Chronicle office is hereby taken possession of by the military authority of the United States. All materials and property of said newspaper of every kind will be turned over immediately to Messrs. Gen. Whipple and J. W. Jackson, who are hereby authorized to issue a loyal Union paper. They will report to Lieut.-Col. Woodford, Provost Marshal Gen. D. S., for all property taken possession of by them under this order. They will keep possession of this building now used for the paper.
By command of Maj. Gen. Q. A. Gilmore,
Lieut.-Col. 127th N. Y. Volunteers,
Provost Marshal, Gen. D. S.
“Get out, old man! You may thank your stars we don’t set the niggers on you.”
And as the lonely man walked down the long-trodden steps he seemed to see below him on the stairway one who had welcomed him at Camellia long years ago. Her eyes looked up to his as of yore, and the same sweet smile parted her lips. But now her arms were outstretched to him, and she seemed to be trying to tell him something that made her bosom heave and her eyes fill with tears.
CHAPTER XLV
The women and old men left in the city, and the entire Union army of occupation, read with avidity the first issue of the Chronicle under its new management.