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The boys' Uncle William came the next day. The two weeks which / followed were the hardest the boys had ever known. As yet nothing had / been heard of Hugh or the General, though the boys' father went to / Richmond to see whether they had been released.
The family lived on corn-bread and black-eyed pease. There was not a / mouthful of meat on the plantation. A few aged animals were all that / remained on the place.