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farm stock driven off, servants scattered, and many a hos- 

 pitable home, that was open to all comers, has been desolated. 

 I prefer not altering what I have written, for I love to think 

 of that part of the country and its people as they were, and 

 indulge the hope that when our Union is restored, I shall 

 again behold "the Major" as I last saw him after returning 

 from Jack-fishing — warming himself before his big log-fire.] 



