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The scene between Captain Somers and his son was very affecting and very / exciting; and if the soldiers had all been uncles and first cousins of the / parties, they could not have manifested more interest on the joyous / occasion. The father wept, and the son wept; for each, amid the terrible / experience of these troublous times, had hardly expected to meet the / other.
For several minutes they held each other by the hand, laughing and weeping / alternately, and neither being able to express the intense emotions which / agitated him. The men shouted and laughed in full sympathy with the / reunited sire and son.