Midlife trials and a loyal love in a Civil War tale
Hildred Hayne, once lively and beloved, endures years of seclusion after a broken engagement and family loss. A wounded Colonel Paul Lancaster returns seeking forgiveness, and Hildred's cold resolve softens as she tends him. His lifeline and love revive her humanity and she becomes a devoted wife and caretaker to him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildred Hayne
Miss Hayne
Paul Lancaster
Mr. Lancaster
Portland
Paul
Isabel Courtland
Lancasters
Hildred
Mary
Red Rock Farm
Red Rock
Francis
Hosme
Colonel Lancaster
Isabella Courtland
Mildred
Mildred Lancaster
Faiena
Carter's Run
Warrenton
Jefferson
Hazel River
Culpepper
Cedar Mountain
Rappadian
Mass
St. I
1St Md
Don t Care If I Do and Civil War Era Tales
A crowded, humorous collage recounts a deaf innkeeper mishearing a traveler asking for Brandon and a painter’s quip. It shifts to Gen Rosecrans era war imagery with pontoon bridges near Bridgeport, marching supply trains, and vivid battlefield mechanics. The piece closes with aphorisms on legal battles, chimney sweeps, editors, and marriage quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Wing
Middle Granville
Ife
Fish
Brandon
Gar i. B. Taylor
Chicago Journal
Army of the Cumberland
Bridgeport
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LEGAL
Charles Dinsmoor
Scofield
Parmlee & Henry’s
Joseph A. Neill
Johnson’s Exchange
Warren, Pa
Barnett W. Lacy
Warren, Penna
Jerome Davis
Brown & M’kelvy
Liberty Street
Warren
G. W. Scofield
WM. D. Brown
TD. M'Kelyy
H. A
Trrson
Wetmore & Clark
Second Street
Johnson & Brown’s
L. D. Wetmore
J. R. Clark
Hackney
Second and
Liberty Streets
Jonnx Roussens
GranGe Sailor
Reed
Drie
Penna
Bett A. M. Gump
Pittsfield House
Pittsfield
Warren Co
Hlouse
Tidioute
L. C. Pexpieron
Brown’s Hotel
State Mouse
Public Square
Erie
Philadelphia
H. L. Brown
Medical
D. V. Stranahan
Front Street
Postoffice
Hazeltine & Co
M. Shaeffer & Co
Yankee Nations, &c
Bysecker Block
P.J. Trushel & Co
Warren Pa
Randall's Drug Store
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
Brown Brothers
H. W. Brown
Thos. Brown
John Brown
Nesmith & Keller
Exchange Building
P. R. Bennett
Big Bend
William Siggins
Youngsville
A. Kirberger
Greenland Brothers
Water Street
George Ball
Central Clothing
O. H. Hunter
High
Nathaniel Kidder
Zoonewango Township
DR. Sweet
Stephen Sweet
Connecticut
the Atlantic Monthly
A. D. T. Whitney
Clara Augusta
Gen’l Rendezvous
Ene
Dezvous
Imi
Ren Septem
Idezvous
Rosecrans
Washington
New York Commercial Advertiser
General Rosecrans
Halleck
Chattanooga
Kentucky
N. Y. Hvening
War Department
Warren Mail
Army OF the Potomac
Mr. Eviorn
1St Md. Cavalry
Gregg
Heangvankers 1St Repr
Pennsylvania
Friends
Union
Holloway
The
United States
Sweets
Sweet
Richardson & CO
Norwich
Conn
Morgan & Allen
Cliff Street
New York
Columbus
Ohio
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