Two Little Confederates

n Brown raid, and the boys' grandmother used to pray

a to make for them. Frank was the captain, Willy the first lieutenant, and a dozen or m

n unbroken, and ran for the Convention against Colonel Richards, who was the chief officer of the militia in the county, and was as blood-t

arge majority. And then they knew there was bound to be war, and that it must be very wicked. They almost felt the "invader's heel," and the invaders were invariably spoken of as "cruel," and the heel was described as of "iron," and was always mentioned as engaged in the act of crushing. They would have been terribly alarmed at this cruel invas

his lot with his people, and joined an infantry company; and Uncle William raised and equipped an artillery compan

nded by a cousin; and from that moment they were cavalrymen to the core. They flung away their stick-guns in disgust; and U

he back pasture; but a premature discovery of the matter ended in such disaster to all concerne

s. They cried when their father and uncle said good-bye, and went away; but it was because their mother looked so pale and ill, and not because they did not think it was all grand. They had no doubt that all would come back soon, for old Uncle Billy, the "head-man," who had been born down in "Little York," where Cornwallis surrendered, had expressed the sentiment of the whole plantation when he declared, as he sat in the back yard surrounded by an

to Richmond, was regarded by the boys with a feeling of mingled e

h the families of cousins and friends who were refugees that the boys were obliged to s

hose beauty at once captivated both boys. This was the first time that the boys knew anything of girls, except their own sister, Evelyn; and after a brief period, during which the novelty gave them