Cease firing

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Cease firing is listed among books by Mary Johnston as the second of two books dealing with the war between the States. Sairy's letter says Steve Dagg is still here and limping when he thinks anybody's looking, and uses both feet the rest of the time. Allan, described as not a swearing man, swears when he reads of Steve Dagg making up to Christianna Maydew.

Richmond is described as crowded by refugees, troops coming and going, Government and the departments, and the inmates of the great hospitals and of the mournful prisons. The text says that, dreadful as was this war, it had as a by-product the lessening of caste, and men came together and worked together as men, not as conventions. The sergeant-major is described as of the yeoman type, a quiet man with little book learning and a name in the regiment for courage and resource.

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Mary Johnston

Mary Johnston was a Virginia novelist and suffrage advocate whose historical fiction moved across colonial America, the Civil War, and Europe. Prisoners of Hope, her 1898 debut, and Audrey, published in 1902, established her reputation through stories of early Virginia.