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else. Two things he did, past all dispute : 

 he saved the Federal army from destruc- 

 tion and made the SnodgAss farmhouse an 

 American shrine. 



When our talk was ended I returned to 

 the hill, and thence sauntered through the 

 woods the yellow-throated warblers sing- 

 ing all about me in the pine-tops down to 

 the vicinity of the railroad. Here, finding 

 myself in the sun again, I made toward a 

 shop near the station, shop and post-office 

 in one, where fortunately there were such 

 edibles, semi-edibles, as are generally to be 

 looked for in country groceries. Meanwhile 

 there came on a Tennessee thunder shower, 

 lightning of the closest and rain by the 

 bucketful ; and, driven before it, an Indiana 

 soldier made his appearance, a wiry little 

 man of fifty or more. He had been spend- 

 ing the day on the field, he told me. In 

 one hand he carried a battered and rusty 

 cartridge-box, and out of his pockets he pro- 

 duced and laid on the counter a collection of 

 bullets. His were relics of the right stamp, 

 found, not purchased, and not without 

 a little shamefacedness I showed him my 

 three minie-balls. "Oh, you have got all 



