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accompanied this assurance with the offer of medical stores, coffee,
sugar and the services of two surgeons. The Confederate general
accepted the offer. The trembling negroes were routed out of their
quarters, and compelled more or less reluctantly to help bring in
the wounded. Uncle Lusthah showed no hesitancy in the humane work
and soon inspired those over whom he had influence with much of his
spirit. It had been a terribly anxious day for him and those about
him. Hope had ebbed and flowed alternately until night, when the day
which seemed to him the dawning of the millennium ended as he
imagined the world might end. Now, however, he was comforted in the
performance of good works, and he breathed words of Christian hope
into more than one dying ear that night.
Perkins, the overseer, was animated by a very different spirit. At
the first alarm of Scoville's return in the morning he had dashed
into the grove, and next concealed himself on a distant eminence
from which he could watch events.
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