IN the summer of 1862, in the Bayou Manchac Country near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the "Dove's Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course of study begun in Baton Rouge before the Federals captured that city. The country was visited quite often by bands of Confederates, " Jay-hawkers," and Federals; the slaves on the vast sugar plantations were in a demoralized condition from being so near the enemy's lines; yet the girls braved all these dangers, and rode on horseback (both on the same horse) three miles through forest and field...
IN the summer of 1862, in the Bayou Manchac Country near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the "Dove's Nest." To th...
