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Many of them were Virginians, but a
number of them came from the North.
They were all students of the Phoebus
Military Academy. +e . :

The dispute would never have arisen if
the fortress had not been there. It wasa
favorite resort of everyone in the vicinity.
Pedestrians in that section of country
turned to the fort’ as surely as the pro-
verbial needle turns to the pole. But on
the day specified the Northerners and
Southerners went to the fortress and
quarreled. They called each other rebels
as glibly and hotly as if the great civil
war had not been ended more than twenty
years before.

The quarrel began at the door of Mr.
Jefferson Davis’s prison. A Boston boy,
named Howard Grant, spoke in uncom-
plimentary terms of the Confederate ex-
president. The Southerners were up in