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 564* WEARING OF THE GRAY.

sunshine; but the thunderbolt had struck him; his brave blood went to swell that great torrent poured out by the gallantest souls of the South.

This hasty sketch—beginning with jests, and ending in some thing like tears—has aimed, in part, to record that presentiment which the young soldier seemed to have of his approaching fate. Wholly incredulous as the writer is of such warnings, it is impossible for him to banish from his mind the fancy that something conveyed to the young soldier a premonition of the coming event. But he did his duty all the same, dying in harness like a good soldier of the South.


 * The lapse of twenty pages after 564 is accounted for by omitting to uumtxtf the illustrations in their order. See list of illustrations.