|
|
Best Selling Books by William TaylorWilliam Taylor is the author of Indiana Baptist History (2023), Four Years Campaign in India, Within The Enemy's Lines (2020), The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa, Letters of Captain Thomas William Taylor of the 10th Hussars during the Waterloo Campaign (2011).
121 - 160 of 1,000,000 results | << >> |
release date: Jul 18, 2023
Four Years Campaign in India
release date: May 04, 2020
It was possible that the young man had just arrived and was fatigued by the trials and perils of his trip, for he must have come by some roundabout way; and very likely he felt nervous and uneasy in the midst of people who were loyal to the government and the Union. Captain Passford decided to say nothing more to his nephew at present as to the occasion and the manner of his visit to Bonnydale, and during the evening meal he avoided all allusion to the war, so far as it was possible to do so. Mrs. Passford and Florry received him very kindly, but following the example of the head of the family, they spoke only of domestic affairs, and of the relations of the two families as they had been before the war.Between the brothers Homer and Horatio Passford, even from their early boyhood, a remarkably 19 strong fraternal affection had subsisted. Both of them were high-toned men, and both of them had always been faithful in the discharge of every duty to God and man. Each of them had a wife, a son and a daughter, and two happier families could not have been found on the face of the earth. They were not only devoted to each other, each within its own circle, but the two families were as nearly one as it was possible to be.Captain Horatio had formerly been a shipmaster, and had accumulated an immense fortune. Homer was less fortunate in this respect, and his tastes were somewhat different from those of his brother. He wanted to be a planter, and with the financial assistance of his brother, he went into the business of raising cotton near Mobile, in Alabama. But years before the war, he had paid off every dollar of his indebtedness to Horatio, and had made a comfortable fortune besides. The two families had visited each other as much an possible, and the captain, with his little family, had been almost to the plantation in the Bellevite, the magnificent steam-yacht of the Northerner.During the preceding winter, Captain Passford, his wife and son, had visited most of the islands of 20 the Atlantic; but the health of Miss Florry was considerably impaired, and the doctors would not permit her to make this sea-voyage, but recommended her to keep quiet in some southern locality. She had therefore passed the winter at Glenfield, which was the name of Homer Passford''s plantation. On his return from this long cruise, the owner of the Bellevite obtained his first news that war existed between the North and the South from the pilot. The three members of the family on board of the steamer were greatly distressed over the fact that Florry was still at the home of her uncle in Alabama, within the enemy''s lines.Without going on shore, Captain Passford decided to arm his yacht, which was large enough for a man-of-war, and hasten to Mobile Bay to bring back his daughter. He was in doubt with regard to the political feeling of Homer, but believed that he would still adhere to the government and the Union. It was a part of his mission to bring his brother and his family to his own home at Bonnydale. Mrs. Passford was sent on shore in a tug, and Christy, the son, was to go with her; but the young man, just entering his 21 seventeenth year, protested against being left at home, and as the captain believed that a patriotic citizen ought to be willing to give his all, even his sons, to his country, the young man went with his father. The mother was as devoted to her country as the father, and terrible as was the ordeal, she consented to part with him for such a duty.
The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa
Letters of Captain Thomas William Taylor of the 10th Hussars during the Waterloo Campaign
release date: Jan 11, 2011
Confessions of a Neurasthenic
release date: Dec 20, 2019
release date: Oct 02, 2006
release date: Jan 01, 1993
Books printed for, and sold by William Taylor, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row
Which are Hamlet's ʻdozen Or Sixteen Lines'?
Isles of the Sea. Or, Young America Homeward Bound. A Story of Travel and Adventure
release date: Jul 28, 2025
Hints on the Proper Employment of Human Life
release date: Jul 26, 2025
Outward Bound Or Young America Afloat
release date: Jun 10, 2017
release date: Feb 21, 2005
Measuring Intangible Value
release date: Jan 01, 2008
A Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental Manuscripts in the Government Library
121 - 160 of 1,000,000 results | << >> |
|
|