Chapter XI: ANTI-SLAVERY AND CIVIL WAR MEMORIES Deep Interest of My 128

Parents in the Anti-Slavery Movement and in the Civil
War.—We Learn the Evil of Compromise.—A Trip to
Kansas.—Manners on the Mississippi Steamboats.—Fort
Sumter Is Attacked.—Mother’s Poems of the
War.—Father’s Work on the Sanitary Commission.—How
the Flag Was Treated at Newport.—We Ride in the “Jeff
Davis.” Knitting and Scraping
Lint.—Sewing-circles.—Fairs for the Army and the
Navy.—“The Boatswain’s Whistle.”—Visiting the Camp at
Readville.—Governor N. P. Banks.—Governor John A.
Andrew.—Parade of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery