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Three Rivers, the James, the Potomac, the Hudson; A Retrospect of Peace and War
Three Rivers the James the Potomac the Hudson A Retrospect of Peace and War Author:Joseph Pearson Farley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1910 Original Publisher: The Neale publishing company Subjects: Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) James River (Va.) Potomac River United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives West Point United States West Point (N.Y.) History / General History... more » / Military / United States History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V Just here I will detain the reader that he may the better understand how we of the coast survey party became so well acquainted with and enjoyed the generous hospitality of the Brandon people. I revert to the day when we lay at anchor off the shore of Lower Brandon in the United States Coast Survey schooner Wave, on one of those lovely moonlight nights of Indian summer weather, late in the month of November, 1856, when suddenly through the veil of mist hanging over the water there loomed up a large plantation boat rowed by some half dozen negroes. It was apparently bearing down upon the schooner, and as it hove alongside one of the party came aboard as bearer of dispatches, in this case dispatches nothing short of a huge clothes basket filled with cake; and, as the spokesman informed us, this bounty was " for the cap'in an' his cru', with the bes' comp'ments of Ole Mis' " (Mrs. Isabella Harrison). Someone facetiously remarked, as the contents of the basket was displayed, " Why, this is a veritable ' cake walk,' " the variety and the quantity of the good things from the Brandon kitchen promising to suffice us all until long after the holiday season near at hand. The next evening we called at the Harrison manor, my father and myself, to thank the ladies ...« less