We remained but a short time at the same residence when Mr. Lewis moved again to the country.  Soon after, my little brother was taken sick in consequence of being confined in a box in which my mother was obliged to keep him.  If permitted to creep around the floor her mistress thought it would take too much time to attend to him.  He was two years old and never walked.  His limbs were perfectly paralyzed for want of exercise.  We now saw him gradually failing, but was not allowed to render him due attention.  Even the morning he died she was compelled to attend to her usual work.  She watched over him for three months by night and attended to her domestic affairs by day.  The night previous to his death we were aware he could not survive through the approaching day, but it made no impression on my mistress until she came into the kitchen and saw his life fast ebbing away, then she put on a sad countenance for fear of being exposed, and told my mother to take the child to her room, where he only lived one hour.  When she found he was dead she ordered grave clothes to be brought and gave my mother time to bury him.  O that morning, that solemn morning.  It appears to me that when that little spirit departed as though all heaven rejoiced and angels veiled their faces.

    My mother too in concert joined,—­
    Her mingled praise with them combined. 
    Her little saint had gone to God
    Who saved him with his precious blood.

Who said “Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not.”

THE SOLDIERS, AND OUR TREATMENT DURING THE WAR

Soon after the war commenced the rebel soldiers encamped near Mr. Lewis’ residence, and remained there one week.  They were then ordered by General Lyons to surrender, but they refused.  There were seven thousand Union and seven hundred rebel soldiers.  The Union soldiers surrounded the camp and took them and exhibited them through the city and then confined them in prison.  I told my mistress that the Union soldiers were coming to take the camp.  She replied that it was false, that it was General Kelly coming to re-enforce Gen. Frost.  In a few moments the alarm was heard.  I told Mrs. L. the Unionists had fired upon the rebels.  She replied it was only the salute of Gen. Kelly.  At night her husband came home with the news that Camp Jackson was taken and all the soldiers prisoners.  Mrs. Lewis asked how the Union soldiers could take seven hundred men when they only numbered the same.  Mr. L. replied they had seven thousand.  She was much astonished, and cast her eye around to us for fear we might hear her.  Her suspicion was correct; there was not a word passed that escaped our listening ears.  My mother and myself could read enough to make out the news in the papers.  The Union soldiers took much delight in tossing a paper over the fence to us.  It aggravated my mistress very much.  My mother used to sit up nights and read to keep posted