tion>G. A. Henty
With Lee in Virginia
A Story of the American Civil War
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664613813
Table of Contents
THE "MERRIMAC" AND THE "MONITOR."
CHAPTER I.
A VIRGINIA PLANTATION.
"I won't have it, Pearson; so it's no use your talking. If I had my way you shouldn't touch any of the field hands. And when I get my way—that won't be so very long—I will take very good care you shan't. But you shan't hit Dan."
"He is not one of the regular house hands," was the reply; "and I shall appeal to Mrs. Wingfield as to whether I am to be interfered with in the discharge of my duties."
"You may appeal to my mother if you like, but I don't think that you will get much by it. You are too fond of that whip, Pearson. It never was heard on the estate during my father's time, and it
