Her people had fought valiantly, and made sacrifices which no one beyond their borders can understand or appreciate.

If the devotion and self-sacrifice of the South, the bravery and determination with which her sons fought, and the heroism with which they suffered and died, were the only considerations, they deserved success.

But thirty years of peace have made the South more prosperous than ever before, and her people enjoy the benefits of the Victorious Union.
[Illustration: "Amid the cheers and applause of the ship's company." Page 356.] Homer Passford, like thousands of others in the South, was a ruined man at the close of the war.

He had lost his plantation, and he and his family had nowhere to lay their heads.

But he was a true Southerner, and he did not regret or repent of what he had done for what he called his country.