Note 61 — Chapter VI · THE OLD-TIME NEGRO

We had three or four such young men on our plantation, and although the plantation lay within two or three miles of the roads down which Sheridan and Stoneman passed, and within twelve or fifteen miles of those along which Grant passed, these were the only negroes from our place who went off during the war. In all, four young men left us.

If anyone wishes to get an insight into this phase of the negro character and at the same time pass a delightful half hour, let him read Harry Stillwell Edwards’s story, “Two Runaways.”