OUR VILLAGE
IN
WAR-TIME.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
ALLAN CAMERON, ILVERTON RECTORY,
ETC.
PUBLISHED BY THE
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.
The incidents in the following narrative are real, andhave actually occurred in the present struggle for ournational life, though not precisely in the order here indicated.Liberty has been taken in locating and arrangingthem, and names and places are assumed.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by theAmerican Tract Society, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Courtof the United States for the Southern District of New York.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Beach Hill neighborhood | 5 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| The Soldiers’ Aid Society | 17 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| The departure of the regiment | 35 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| The drummer-boy of the Twenty-sixth | 50 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| How the boys came home | 80 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Lights and shadows | 102 |
OUR VILLAGE IN WAR-TIME.
CHAPTER I.
THE BEACH HILL NEIGHBORHOOD.
“Would you believe it, Mrs. Glenn,the Tyrrell House is sold, and a family isgoing to move into it right away? Thepainters and carpenters have been therefor a week. I didn’t know the house, itlooked so lively. It seems too bad tohave that place shut up from the public,for we all enjoyed it so much; but I supposethe owner had the best right to it,after all. I haven’t found out who thefamily are, but I shall hear all about itto-morrow, and then I will let you know;for Aunt Prudence is going there to clean[6]the rooms, and get them ready for thefurniture.”
As Miss Letty paused to take breath,I expressed my interest in the