Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865. Gay Mary Ann Harris
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Название: Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865

Автор: Gay Mary Ann Harris

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СКАЧАТЬ illuming my pathway through subsequent life; a scene in which lovely girlhood, arrayed in pure white robes, lent a helping hand in the important work of supplying our soldiers with comforts, all the more appreciated because of the source from which emanating. With closed eyes, I see it now and listen to its enchanting melody. To render it more realistic than could be done by any description of mine, I subjoin a copy of the “Programme,” the original of which I have preserved:

GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT!RELIEF FUNDFOR OUR SOLDIERS,THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1862,AT THE COURTHOUSE

      By the ladies of Decatur, Georgia, assisted by William H. Barnes, Colonel Thomas F. Lowe, Professor Hanlon, W. A. Haynes, R. O. Haynes, Dr. Geutebruck and Dr. Warmouth, of Atlanta.

PROGRAMMEPart I

      1. Opening Chorus – Company.

      2. Piano Duet – “March from Norma” – Miss Georgia Hoyle and Miss Missouri Stokes.

      3. Solo – “Roy Neil” – Mrs. Robert Alston.

      4. Quartette – Atlanta Amateurs.

      5. “Tell Me, Ye Winged Winds” – Company.

      6. “Our Way Across the Sea” – Miss G. Hoyle and Professor Hanlon.

      7. March – Piano Duet – Miss Laura Williams and Miss Fredonia Hoyle.

      8. Solo – Professor Hanlon.

      9. Comic Song – W. H. Barnes.

      10. Violin Solo – Colonel Thomas F. Lowe.

      11. Solo – Dr. Warmouth.

      12. “When Night Comes O’er the Plain” – Miss M. Stokes and Professor Hanlon.

      13. “The Mother’s Farewell” – Mrs. Maggie Benedict.

Part II

      1. Chorus – “Away to the Prairie” – Company.

      2. Piano Solo – Miss G. Hoyle.

      3. Song – Atlanta Amateurs.

      4. Coquette Polka – Misses Hoyle and Stokes.

      5. Chorus – “Let us Live with a Hope” – Company.

      6. “Mountain Bugle” – Miss M. Stokes and Company.

      7. “Mazurka des Traineaux” – Piano Duet – Misses Hoyle and Stokes.

      8. Shiloh Retreat – Violin – Colonel Thomas F. Lowe.

      Concluding with the Battle Song: “Cheer, Boys, Cheer” – W. H. Barnes.

      Tickets, 50c. Children and Servants, half price.

      Doors open 7:30 o’clock. Commence at 8:15 o’clock.

Atlanta Intelligencer Power PrintMusical – Atlanta

      The citizens of Decatur were always invited to entertainments, social, literary, and musical, in Atlanta, that had in view the interest, pleasure or comfort of our soldiers; therefore the invitation accompanying the following programme received ready response:

TWELFTH MUSICAL SOIREE– of the —ATLANTA AMATEURS,Monday evening, June 24, 1861,For the Benefit ofATLANTA VOLUNTEERS,Captain Woddail,and theCONFEDERATE CONTINENTALS,Captain Seago,Who Are Going to Defend Our LandLet all attend and pay a parting tribute to our bravesoldiersPROGRAMMEPart I

      1. We Come Again – (Original) – Company.

      2. Dreams – (A Reverie) – Miss J. E. Whitney.

      3. Violin Solo – (Hash) – Colonel Thomas F. Lowe.

      4. “Not for Gold or Precious Stones” – Miss R. J. Hale.

      5. Yankee Doodle – According to W. A. Haynes.

      6. Dixie Variations – Mrs. W. T. Farrar.

      7. “Two Merry Alpine Maids” – Misses M. F. and J. E. Whitney.

      8. “When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home” – Misses Sasseen and Judson.

      9. “Root Hog or Die” – W. H. Barnes.

      Instrumental Trio, “La Fille du Regiment” – Messrs. Schoen and Heindl. Vermicelli, (Variations) – W. H. Barnes and Openheimer.

Part II

      1. “Our Southern Land” – C. P. Haynes and Company.

      2. “Through Meadows Green” – Miss M. F. Whitney.1

      3. Solo – Thomas D. Wright.

      4. “Home, Sweet Home” – Miss R. J. Hale.

      5. Violin Exemplification – Col. Thomas F. Lowe.

      6. “Happy Days of Yore” – Mrs. Hibler.

      7. Quartette – (original) – Misses Whitney, Messrs. Barnes and Haynes.

      8. “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” – Prof. Hanlon. Encore – Ballad.

      9. “I Come, I Come” – Misses Sasseen, Westmoreland and Sims.

      The whole to conclude with the grand original.

TABLEAU,(In Two Parts)

      The Women and Children of Dixie Rejoicing Over the Success of the Confederate Banner.

      Scene 1. The Children of Dixie.

      Scene 2. The Women – The Soldiers – Our Flag – Brilliant Illumination.

      Doors open at half past 7 o’clock. Curtain will rise at half past 8 o’clock.

      Tickets, Fifty Cents. Ushers will be on hand to seat audience.

W. H. BARNES, Manager

       CHAPTER IV.

      LABORS OF LOVE

Knitting and Sewing, and Writing Letters to “Our Soldiers.”

      A patriotic co-operation between the citizens of Decatur and Atlanta soon sprang up, and in that, as in all things else, a social and friendly interchange of thought and feeling and deed existed; and we were never so pleased as when aiding each other in the preparation of clothing and edibles for “our soldiers,” or in some way contributing to their comfort.

      Many of us who had never learned to sew became expert handlers of the needle, and vied with each other in producing well-made garments; and I became a veritable knitting machine. Besides the discharge of many duties incident to the times and tending to useful results, I knitted a sock a day, long and large, and not coarse, many days in succession. At the midnight hour the weird click of knitting needles chasing each other round and round in the formation of these useful garments for the nether limbs of “our boys,” was no unusual sound; and tears and СКАЧАТЬ

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This lady, Miss “Frank” Whitney, is now the wife of Mr. Charles W. Hubner, the well-known Atlanta poet.