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era! raid would sweep the barn, the pens, and the smokehouse clean. In summer they had their gardens and vegetables, but in winter the great articles of diet were cow beans and corn bread. 4 i The close season for three years had filled the country with game, but bird and beast, except the rabbit, were safe. Ah! Those old hares! What a blessing they were to those unfortunate noncombatants cooped up in Mosby’s__Confederacy! The boys and girls had traps set all round the place, and rabbits roasted, rabbits fried, rabbit hash, and rab bit fricassee were the prevailing diet. The people living near the Federal camps fared better, for in all truth and h nor to the soldiers in blue they would give the country people mess pork and hard-tack; and when they broke camp, there would be lef. quantities of provisions, which the soldiers freely bestowed on those who came flocking from far and wide to share in the spoil. But for these supplies most people along the rail road would actually have died of starvation. “The Muse of history has written on her scroll the gallant deeds and the endurance of the Black Horse Cavalry, but in heroic endurance they cannot compare with the women of old Fauquier. It is impossible for the average American of today, as he sits in his own home, with his fam ily and friends around him, with civ ilization encompassing him, he and his protected by law, to understand or to picture the existence that the delicate, refined women of Mosby’s Confederacy led for three years. They were absolutely alone in.their dwell ings. Every man capable of bearing arms or act in the department was in the service. There was but little vis iting among the neighbors except in case of dire necessity. There were no churches open, no entertainments to relieve the somber lives they led. There were no stores where they might purchase clothes or groceries, no social intermingling to shorten the long hours of the winter nights, and just think of it, no fashion to give joy to their feminine hearts. The ne groes had long ago left, and these delicate women had to cut wood and carry it home on their shoulders, bring water, and work in their gar dens. They cut the hay, and culti vated corn patches in some obscure spot that a scouting party would not be likely to find.” ‘We extract just one more page from this intensely interesting con tribution to the literature of the Civil War: “Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier, is a village of some eight hundred people and famous in ante bellum days for its lovely women and its hospitalitv. It is beautifully situated on a high range of hills. The inhabitants, all well-to-do at the out break of the war, grew wretchedlv poor before the conflict was half over. Warrenton was called the cap ital of Mosbv’s Confederacy, and everv Federal raiding party would deflect from its course and dash through its streets. It must have been to the bbiecoa*s like “ ‘Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain/ for everv door and window was tight- Iv closed and not a snul was visible. Yes, there was one exception: the worthy mayor always met the visit ing military with a bow and smile, and offered them the keys and the freedom of the town.. This happen ed so often that ‘His Honor,’ like a popular country doctor, was often called up at the most untimely hours of the night. . “On one occasion a Federal brigade of cavalry swept into town one day at noon most unexpectedly. It was a dull day in November, with a heavy fog, and it caught the vil lagers napping. A dozen or more old men were rounded updßnd taken before the general commanding. “ ‘What is your name?’ he asked one. “ ‘My name is Rabbit, s ; r. ’ “ ‘And yours?’ addressing the next one. “ ‘My name is Coon, sir.’ “ ‘Yours?’ he asked of a little Dutchman. “ ‘Lion,’ was the replv. “ ‘Adjutant,’ roared the general, ‘lead all these men to their homes; we have struck ad — menagerie.’ “Yet these m n gave their correct names. It was a curious coincidence that they all should have been to gether. ’ ’ Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she has but one thing she can really give or refuse —her heart. Her beauty, her wit, her ac complishments, she may sell to you, but her love is a treasure without price. 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