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BULL RUN AND OTHER BATTLES.
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could go to the front and have fun with the Yankees, if so disposed, These gentlemen, wearing their nice new broad-cloth clothes, and with a court suit and suitable

HOPED SHE WOULD GIVE A FEW READINGS FROM HER OWN WORKS.

night-wear to use in case they should be pressed to stop a week or two at the castle, got to Havana safely, and took passage on the British ship Trent; but Captain Wilkes, of the United States steamer San Jacinto, took them off the Trent, just as Mr. Mason had drawn and fortunately filled a hand