Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors and misprints have been corrected.
Blank pages have been deleted.
"Jayhawkers" is defined in a footnote in page 53 of theoriginal book, although it appears for the first time in page 11.For clarity, the footnote has been consequently moved.
How Beauty Was Saved
And Other Memoriesof the Sixties
BY
MRS. JAMES MADISON WASHINGTON
(Mrs. A. A. Washington)
New York and Washington
THE NEALE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1907
CONTENTS
| How Beauty Was Saved | 9 |
| The Telltale Gloves | 23 |
| The Magic Sign | 31 |
| A Labor of Love | 39 |
| The "Jayhawkers" | 51 |
| Memories of Slave Days | 59 |
| A Narrow Escape | 67 |
Green and golden memories
Of the thrilling time
When hearts and hands were true as steel
In our sunny Southern clime.
A. A. W.
HOW BEAUTY WAS SAVED
In the summer of 1862, in theBayou Manchac coun