Author : Harriet Powe Lynch
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331349280
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Book Synopsis Reminiscences Sketches of Confederate Times by : Harriet Powe Lynch
Download or read book Reminiscences Sketches of Confederate Times written by Harriet Powe Lynch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences Sketches of Confederate Times: By One Who Lived Through Them In the first years of a joyous manhood my Father answered to the South's call to arms. For the sake of his dear Southland, he put behind him a life of ease, fraught with promise of future usefulness, dignified and enlarged by wealth and enriched by ties of affection, and unhesitatingly accepted the dangers and privations of a soldier's life. Those were the days when a Southerner loved his soil as he loved the home and family which it nourished - and would do battle for it with a fierce paternal instinct. This characteristic was peculiarly strong in my Father, so that even in his later life any long absence from his native town filled him with a homesick longing. A few words will suffice to give the story of his life, for, excepting the four years of war, it was void of the great events, which go to make up a thrilling story. Like that of others of his countrymen, it was garlanded with fair flowers of promise in his youth, and crowned in early middle-age with the laurel and cypress wreath of noble endurance, sustained under trials sordid and embittering. James Harrington Powe was born in Cheraw, S. C., April 11, 1835. His Mother was Charlotte Harrington, granddaughter of Gen. Henry William Harrington, of Revolutionary fame; his Father was Dr. Thomas E. Powe, a descendant of one of the first settlers of his native town and a planter of wealth and position. On his Father's side he came of a family of physicians, and as the oldest living son he was destined to carry forward the family tradition. It was not the profession of his choice, for his heart, tender as a woman's, bled at the sight of the suffering that he was called upon to relieve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.