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Glover Johns
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"The family lived
among a community of new German immigrants whose sympathies were pro-Lincoln,
"republican," plebeian -- the very antithesis of the ideas
by which George and his brothers were reared, and reasons for a scrap
were never wanting. The honor of the South and of the family had to
be defended, and though George's temper burned as redily as did his
brothers', he was not as tall and muscular as his next older brother
Glover, who had reddish brown hair and was always ready for a fight.
It was glover who taught George how to use his fists and who defended
him when he was in a tight place. Glover who died in his thirties, remained
for many years a family legend of boyhood chivalry and courage.
"The boys played
Indian in the corn-rows, pitched horse-shoes, and rode bareback around
the farms. but their favorite game was "town-ball," a primitive
batting and running game, undoubtedly the forerunner of modern baseball.
They fired off ancient blunderbusses at rabbits and quail, and in Elm
Point Creek, three miles away on the up-and-down turnpike, there were
fresh pools among the rocks, where they could catch bass and trout.
"They had to do
their stint of household chores and gardening, and in the morning before
breakfast and at night before bedtime there was an obligatory hald hour
of family worship, a chapter of Scripture and a long pryer by grandfather.
They studied the catechism as diligently as boys nowadays stufy aerodynamics
and geography."
The Time of Our Lives
Orrick Johns
pp. 19-20
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