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The visitors remained at Oakland for several days, as the lady wished / to have her son's remains removed to the old homestead in Delaware. / She was greatly distressed over the want which she saw at Oakland -- for / there was literally nothing to eat but black-eyed pease and the boys' / chickens. Every incident of the war interested her. She was delighted / with their Cousin Belle, and took much interest in her story, which / was told by the boys' mother.
Her grandson, Dupont, was a fine, brave, and generous young fellow. He / had spent his boyhood near a town, and could neither ride, swim, nor / shoot as the Oakland boys did; but he was never afraid to try / anything, and the boys took a great liking to him, and he to them.