GDG- Mr. And Mrs. Tyson

[Dennis Lawrence]

A BRIDE'S UNWELCOME GUESTS

How Lee's Army Helped Mr. And Mrs. Tyson to Set Up Housekeeping

My friend Tyson had related to me while coming into town that he had been 
married but a short time and had just begun housekeeping when he was 
compelled with his wife to leave his home and his gallery and seek safety 
in the country. When, therefore, we reached his house I dismounted and went 
in with him. He was agreeably surprised to find things in as good order as 
they were. The Confederates had made a fire in the centre of the parlor 
carpet, scattered clothing about the house, selected some things with the 
evident intention of taking them away, but probably left them because of 
the suddenness of their departure. Remembering that he had secreted a 
barrel of flour behind the cellar door Mr. Tyson looked to see if it had 
been taken, but found it just as he had left it, the door opening so as to 
conceal it. We made a hurried visit to the photograph gallery which was 
found locked, no one having entered it during his absence. In the front 
wall of the building a three-inch rifle shell was half buried. A few days 
ago I addressed a few lines to Mr. Tyson, recounting some of the incidents 
of that day, and received in return the following interesting 
letter....................


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