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re? January 30 They [the negroes] have some phrases as poetic as the Portuguese. The reverberations of the noonday gun, which are often very beautiful, they call bush-take-'um, meaning that the land takes up and echoes the sound. In describing a particularly severe whipping, the major has heard them say, Mause t'row de stick till de bush take 'um. So throw the stick is to whip, and this was done till it echoed again. The phrase is pretty, though the thing is ugly. Camp Shaw, February 11 On the 4th inst. I found the bloodroot in bloom; there is a quantity of it just outside our camp lines. Last year also I found it early in February; two war winters rolling over its head and just the same white creature here as in Massachusetts. It symbolizes military life, though, whose forms and pageants are all innocent enough to look at — baby watches dress parade every day — till some morning unearths the ensanguined root of it all. Well, if Nature has room for the bloodroot, I