On Wheels and How I Came There

Excerpt from On Wheels and How I Came There

The beautiful poem, Driving Home the Cows, is founded upon a true story of a mother who sent her boy to perform this duty years before. He obeyed at last, but in the meantime he had been to war and back again. That boy was in his teens.

Lieutenant Cushing was but twenty-one when he blew up the Albemarle and sent her to the bottom of the river. The Albemarle was a powerful rebel cruiser which was about to put to sea to prey upon our commerce, when this boy, at deadly peril to his life, ended her career before it was fairly begun.

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