The Prisoner of the Mill; or, Captain Hayward's Body Guard
Author: Harry Hazelton
Category: Other2
Published: 2016
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Read OnlineBrother and Sister—Forebodings—Nettleton. WAR! Oh! how much of misery is expressed in that one word! It tells its own tale of woe, of blood, of broken hearts and desolated homes, of hopes blighted, of poverty and crime, of plunder, peculation and official tyranny, of murder and sudden death. In short, it develops all the baser passions of the human heart, changing a peaceful world to a world of woe, over which the destroying angel well might weep. Come, oh, thou angel, PEACE! The “Army of the Mississippi,” as it was termed, had been unsuccessful in their pursuit of the rebel General Price.