Approach to Charleston

JULY 5, 1862.]

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(Previous Page) for months now, that it had only been a delusion—that you were the very life of my life, as no one else ever had been or could be."

"And you never spoke?"

"How could I? I was a woman."

"And so, but for this sudden parting, you would have let me go all my life through and never know that the treasure I coveted was mine! Oh, child, I have kept my word to you. I have not forsaken you, or staid away from you, but it has been a sore trial."

He knelt down beside me, and folded me in that strong clasp of his. His eyes shone with a measureless content. I could feel the beating of his heart full and strong—the heart which was to be my home.

He looked up after a while, and said, oh, so tenderly,

"Florence, the life I was going to offer my country was worth so little to me that to give it was no sacrifice. Must I withdraw the offering, now that you have made it infinitely precious?"

I knew what his wish was. Perhaps I should not have loved him so well if he had been capable of giving up the right, even for me. I knew that I but echoed the resolve in his own soul when I answered him—

"No, you shall fight for two."

"Then it must be my wife who will watch and pray for me—my wife who will welcome me when I come back. To-morrow, love, you must be mine. I could die happier knowing that you bore my name, and had a wife's right to weep for me."

I did not refuse—how could I? The next day we were married.

He has passed, unscathed, through many a fierce fight, ever, as I knew he would be, in the thickest of the fray. I have faith, at length, in my own happiness. I believe Heaven guards him; and by-and-by, with laurels on his brow, he will come back to love and me—my hero—my husband!

THE JEW'S GARDEN.

I KNEW it in winter, when flowers were few,

When days were dim with unfruitful hours—

Next door but one the little old Jew

I knew he was fond of flowers.

For the weather had often his wistful gaze,

And he changed as the weather was warm or cool;

I knew it, too, by his cheerful ways

With the children coming from school. 

'Twas the emerald edge of the month of May,

With a spirit of bloom in the balmy air:

"Will you look at my garden?" said he, one day;

It is full of promises fair."

I smiled as we neared it. A cramped recess

Amid angular walls of commodious art,

It lay, like Beauty, companionless—

Like song in a sordid heart.

But the tired airs panted among the plants there,

Which, by devious ways, they had come to claim,

And the voice of love fell from the dove-cotes near,

And the crippled sunbeams came.

And never a care of the noisome air,

The din of the street, or the dingy place,

Did the young growths take in that garden there,

As if blessed with a genial grace.

Never a care took the Bean, but to vie With Ivy and Hop that blindly run,

With small hands holding the strings whereby
They feel their way up to the sun;

Nor the Daffodil, but to dazzle and yield

A tune to the eye with its golden bells;

Nor the Giant of Battle, whose blood-red shield

Enchants the look which it quells.

But lo! a mound—a miniature mound!

A sensitive plant, with its hands half shut, Stands softly near as in prayer profound—

A Heart's-ease smiles at the foot.

The quaint old Jew, with his cheerful chat

On the habits and hues and names of flowers, Never glanced at this, the gem of the plat,

And, most likely, the labor of hours.

Till I said, "What is it, my friend—this mound,
Moss-mantled and wee, like a fairy's grave,
And those typical plants that guard it around?"

I paused at the sigh he gave.

He spoke no word, but his eyes slowly filled—

The air grew still and the sunlight sere;

And then, as the Sensitive plant was thrilled

By the old man's falling tear,

A vision arose of a greener grave

In a distant land, in the distant years,

And I knew the mourner who knelt and gave

A youthful tribute of tears.

And I thought, this old man here, to this day,

May have lived by brokerage, cheat, and bribe—

May have fawned, and lied, and clutched, and grown gray

In the sordid curse of his tribe.

But surely, I thought, love falls, like dew,

On his heart from the heaven of by-gone hours; And surely God loves the little old Jew,

So cheerful and fond of flowers.

THE APPROACH TO CHARLESTON.

ON page 429 we give a BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF CHARLESTON AND VICINITY, showing James Island and Stono Inlet, and the position of our forces and our gun-boats. We take the following extracts from correspondents' letters from the army:

It is but a little way from here to Charleston. From our outposts, looking across the narrow skirt of the island, we can plainly see Fort Johnson, and in a line beyond it Fort Sumter. Still farther the spires of the city and the masts of a few lonely vessels rise dimly to the view. But interposing is a force as large, I think, as our own, and they gave us, in the skirmish of yesterday, an evidence of dash and daring for which our men seemed hardly prepared. They are, of course, alarmed for the safety of the city. It may be that they will abandon it at once, seeing as they soon must that its possession must ultimately be transferred to the Union army. But we have every reason to expect a desperate resistance on their part, and hard fighting on our own, before the Stars and Stripes will float in triumph over Sumter's walls.

There has been a good deal of skirmishing between our forces and those of the rebels, resulting in our success. The rebels have been on the aggressive since we ceased to advance, and have given us one or two very pretty fights. They are in very strong force upon James Island, and have a large reserve in Charleston and on neighboring islands. The failure of Colonel Christ to destroy the railroad bridge at Pocotaligo, and thereby sever the main artery between Charleston and Savannah, has enabled the rebels to concentrate a very large force in and about Charleston, with ample means to increase it at short notice. In this they have the advantage of' us. They can move troops with greater rapidity and concentrate more easily than we. Still we have managed thus far to get a little ahead of them, and would to-day have been in Charleston if a little more transportation could have been procured. One brigade failed to be on the ground assigned it in consequence of lack of transportation, and the moment which found Charleston nearly unprotected on that approach was forever lost, and when the movement was finally attempted the avenue of approach was found almost impregnable. The cause of the failure of the movement, I presume,, will be investigated.

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