Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 4 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
Royal before daylight.
Belle had many adventures and narrow escapes, but in 1864 she set sail for England with important papers for Southern sympathizers there. The papers never made it to England, though, because the ship was captured by a Federal vessel. Here Belle’s, romance began with the lieutenant who commanded the Federal ship. On the way to Boston, Lieutenant Hardinge “quoted poetry from Shakespeare and Byron and before the the vessel reached Boston, Belle had given her heart and her promise to marry the lieutenant.”
Belle was sent to Canada and told not to return to the U.S. during the war, and the lieutenant was arrested and charged with helping the captain of the Confederate ship to escape. Belle and the lieutenant found one another again in London, and were married. Hardinge was later arrested for being a deserter, was sent to prison, but Belle’s efforts and the end of the war freed him.
Another story from the Civil War is found in A Treasury of Southern Folklore edited by B.A. Botkin. The story gives the reason why General Robert E. Lee would not attack Chatham during the war. When General Lee was in Fredericksburg the Federal commander had his headquarters in Chatham, but when he was urged to fire on the town General Lee would not because it is said that he remembered that he had courted his wife in Chatham, “and had not the heart to unloose his guns against it.”
The same book also has the story of how another famous man, Daniel Boone, won the hand of his wife, Rebecca. Boone was hunting one day, according to the story, near the plantation of Mr. Morgan Bryan. He had dismounted and was moving forward when he saw two blue eyes staring from behind a thicket.
Boone aimed his rifle, but did not shoot for some reason and the “deer” sprang away. He chased the running figure to the home of Mr. Bryan, and thought that the deer must have been a pet. Boone then went to the house where he met Mr. Bryan and was about to inquire about the deer when a boy of 10 ran into the room with a girl of 16. The boy told his father that his sister had been chased by a panther or some other creature when she had tried to set traps. By then, the “deer” and the “panther” had realized what had happened, and “that is how Rebecca Bryan became Rebecca Boone....”
There are many other stories of love to be found in southern folklore, but this article will end with a story of enduring love that began with a Jffardis Gras long ago. At a Mardis Gras ball in the French Opera House, a young man from the East saw a beautiful Creole girl seated in the opposite balcony. Their eyes met, and he went out into the lobby where he was sure the girl would join him.
The girl did come to the lobby, and she and the young man left together. Once outside, the girl said that she had
94.8%