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many trying situations duiing the ■war between the spates: ' * ^ r
The “Yankees were plunder* ing the barns, shooting the turkeys and chickens and ehasing the cows in an effort to milk them. With several of the faithful slfcves the mistress of “Poplar Shade* walked to the ‘‘cupping” and with sweet dignity; said ‘Gentlemen I see you are exciting my cows and so I have brought riny milk maid to milk them for you’.**
The soldiers of the North, while passing through the F.T. Valley, stopped at ‘‘Mont Medi” to despoil and to^ carry off the horses. The long* day through the young daughter of the house stood on the front steps, holding the bridle-reins of her favorite horse. All day long the soldiers stopped, looked at the good horse and passed on, at the close ' of day a tired girl was left alone with her horse.
Was it the look in her lovely eyes that gave those soldiers pause or did kindness of heart and the chivalry of man seek expression amidst the cruelties of war?
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