After the marriage he had taken her to visit his family in England but she had not been there many weeks before the news arrived of the sudden death of her father. Vincent Wingfield was the son of an English officer, who, making a tour in the States, had fallen in love with and won the hand of Winifred Cornish, a Virginia heiress, and one of the belles of Richmond. Come along, Dan I want you at the stables." Vincent Wingfield turned on his heel, and followed by Dan, a negro lad of some eighteen years old, he walked toward the house, leaving Jonas Pearson, the overseer of the Orangery Estate, looking after him with an evil expression of face. It never was heard on the estate during my father's time, and it shan't be again when it comes to be mine, I can tell you. 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. But you shan't hit Dan." "He is not one of the regular house hands," was the reply "and I shall appeal to Mrs. And when I get my way-that won't be so very long-I will take very good care you shan't.
If I had my way you shouldn't touch any of the field hands. Young Wingfield, who is conscientious, spirited, and 'hard as nails,' would have been a man after the very heart of 'Stonewall' Jackson."- Times."I won't have it, Pearson so it's no use your talking. "The story is a capital one and full of variety, and presents us with many picturesque scenes of Southern life. He has many hairbreadth escapes, is several times wounded and twice taken prisoner but his courage and readiness and, in two cases, the devotion of a black servant and of a runaway slave whom he had assisted bring him safely through all difficulties.
Henty has made admirable use in this story of a young Virginian planter, who, after bravely proving his sympathy with the slaves of brutal masters, serves with no less courage and enthusiasm under Lee and Jackson through the most exciting events of the struggle.
Of this heroic clash of opposing conviction Mr. Few great wars have been fought out by each side with greater intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause or with more abundant personal heroism than the American civil war.
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