seemed to struggle to keep her feet, and walked with great difficulty until her owner was taken out of the saddle. Then she sank heavily to the ground with a thud; and threw her legs out violently from her body, under the impulse of great pain. At every motion the blood spouted out filling the furrows where she lay. Meanwhile the sergeant's head rested on the ground nearby; rider and horse had both laid down together to die."

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During the latter part of the civil war, both sides resorted to conscription. Many in both sections of the country evaded this draft, and Porter, traveling on orders from Louisiana to Richmond in the summer of 1864, with a party consisting of four officers, one orderly, a negro servant, all mounted, and a little brown pack-mule named 'Judy'", relates their passage through the Mississippi pine woods:

"Last evening we crossed Pearl river at Ford's Ferry a
wide river and very bad bottom. Honey Island, twelve miles
below, is the nest of the deserters and jay-hawkers from
Mississippi, who are said to number some hundreds of well
armed men who have retreated to this fastness and defy the
conscript officers. Every night we are entertained by our
piney woods hosts with an account of the bloody doings of
these bandits, and we dream of Honey Island and jayhawkers
all night. ... Riding through the piney woods belt, one is
struck by the contrast between the soil and the women; one
is poor and barren as a sand hill, the other prolific as
rabbits; and as we passed a cabin and looked down upon 15
or 16 tow-heads that filled the door, and saw another in
the arms, we felt the truth of the saw, a poor man for
children' and drove the spurs into my horse Guy Livingston'
and began to muse upon the mutability of human affairs,
when the Major rode up by our side and pointed to the pro-
prietor of that cabin, that tract, and that flourishing
colony of 'male boys and female girls', and suggested that
our conscript officers seldom let a poor devil with those
surroundings escape them; the reflection was a sad but
just one, and many similar cases of hardship had come under
my own eye, and it was a relief to know that at least one
of these poor devils had eluded the grasp of the conscript
officers."

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It is a peculiar fact that two of the most important influences that were to so greatly affect the conduct of the American people,

in the Civil War, and the "Reconstruction" which followed, were "Madmen". John Brown, and his body "which kept marching on" was undoubtedly a strong factor in providing a 'morale' to the Northern boys (and their mothers who sent them to fight and die) in the invasion of the Southern states. John Wilkes Booth, the demented actor who shot Lincoln, removed from office the one man who would have been able to control the gross selfishness and corrupt political intrigue which spelt ruin for the battered and bleeding South, and demoralization to the soul of many of the Northern people.

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The South depended, not only on England but also on the North for much of its materials; Porter's sword bore the stamp of the Ames Manufacturing Co., of Cabotsville, Mass.; and the buttons on his Confederate uniform were made by Horstman and Allen' of New York.

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The official records of these gallant soldiers in gray, are indeed For instance the Records of Louisiana Confederate soldiers, published in New Orleans 1920 (Vol III, Book 1) give the following brief account of Porter's war service:

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Morse, A.L. (Also borne on Rolls as Morse, A.P.)
Co. I, 1st. La. Cav. En. Oct. 8th, Morganza. Rolls
from April 1862 to June 1863, Absent detailed by
Gen. Ledbetter at Chattanooga, Tenn.

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There was a sharp contrast, however, between the festivities of this wedding, and that of her sister to Mr. Schiff, of Paris, before the war. For the latter, there were some 500 guests - 50 of whom were house guests for the week; they were waited upon by Imbert, the famous New Orleans chef and caterer who came with his entire staff a week in advance to prepare the delicacies. On the occasion, "the great Greek porticoes were hung with a thousand lights which shone far out into the river, dancing cloths were laid over the lower floors, and the Chambers were all festoned with flowers. The feast was so bounteous that the very boatmen on the Mississippi, who had brought the guests up the river to Belle Grove Landing, came in for their share of the festivities." "Belle Grove" was built in 1857 by John Andrews, formerly from Virginia, and during the few years preceding the Civil War was the scene of many lavish entertainments. The plantation comprised two thousand acres. A few years after the war, the estate was sold to Mr. Ware, who continued to maintain the hospitality of the estate for many decades and who constructed two race tracks on the plantation.

APPENDIX 133

The following lines, written by Isaac E., and concerning his visit to Ireland in 1832, were found in a letter addressed to a friend: "When memory casts its faintest glance

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On days and scenes far, far away,
And O'er my mind bright visions dance
To charm me like some magic lay:
Howe'er remote that time may be

Sweet Katrine Loch, I'll think of thee...

"Though I n'er may revisit Killarney,
Fond memories will sometimes recall thee:
Each rock and each glen

Shall be dear to me then

Though far, far away from Killarney."

On Jan. 13th 1866, Caleb Cushing wrote from Washington to Isaac E.: "I have lately heard of you from a common friend and learned with pleasure that you had passed personally well through the calamities of the last four years. Can I be of use to you in any affairs either here or in New Orleans?" And nine months later to his widow, Margaretta: "I will with pleasure aid you in the prosecution of your claim for balance of account due Mr. Morse. Be good enough to copy and sign the accompanying letter, upon which I will have the case looked up, so as to be ready to confer with you on the subject when you come to Washington. I doubt not that the President will remember Mr. Morse with kindness. Please to enclose to me the letter to Mr. Seward."

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In 1865 a Nation was truly born. Until then there had been numerous attempts to form a firm Union among the English speaking people in America, and their constantly expanding territory. The idea began in New England. More than one of the steps were achieved at the cost of dissention, disputes and bloodshed. The "trend" has been towards a centralization of power, which in its final degree may make us a more effective and more powerful government able to fill some predestined world-wide function.

The New England Confederacy of 1643

The Temporary Congress of 1690

The Plan of Union agreed upon in the Convention of 1754
The Stamp Act Congress of 1765