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35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who can that be?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It may be my brother coming to demand the arms, replied Noah Lyon, as he took one of the muskets from the wall."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably he has a load of his supporters with him if it is he.... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think the ruffians are coming over here to-night, do you, Colonel Cosgrove?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think they are on their way here now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there any other way they can get to your house than over that bridge... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's so, added Colonel Belthorpe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think you had better station the two boys, who have proved that they have pluck enough for any duty, where they can give us early notice of the approach of the enemy."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going to find your soldiers when you want them, Major Lyon? inquired Colonel Belthorpe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You hinted that you knew where to look for them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we had better not discuss that s... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the question of enlisting negroes in the army, either as regulars or volunteers, I have not yet come to a decision, said Major Lyon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But in defence of my property, and the protection of my family I should have no objection to using a... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "General, sar,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are a big fellow; did you ever fire a gun?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, sar; Cunnel Lyon done send me often to shoot some ducks for de ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we have a force of twenty-two men, said Colonel Belthorpe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know about these recruits with black faces, and I have my doubts about making soldiers of them. Fall in, and we will march up to the bridge."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you think we had better put out the lights in the fort, Colonel Belthorpe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By no means. I have had fighting enough with cut-throat Indians to satisfy my tastes in that direction, and I am not anxious for any more of it, replied th... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What have they stopped there for, Colonel Belthorpe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They can see your fort by this time, and the lights have attracted their attention, replied the military gentleman."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They can see that you ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major Lyon, do those rascals know that you took possession of the military stores, or do they only guess at it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They know the arms they stored in a sink-hole cavern are gone, and they appeared at the meeting to know that I had caused th... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are at least a hundred of them,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And some of them have muskets,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks as though some one or more of us might be shot, continued Major Lyon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is all nonsense!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Titus wishes only to repeat the demand for the return of the arms, added Colonel Cosgrove."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we can't spare them just yet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"va... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major Lyon, I think you had better let me do the talking, for the situation must be very annoying to you,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall be very glad to have you do so, Colonel, answered the planter."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am extremely... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is your business here?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I stated my position in the meet'n' you held to-night, and you heard what I had to say,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We all heard you; and it is not necessary to repeat it, replied the command... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have had enough of your gabble! continued the leader."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We decline any further communication with you under a flag of truce or otherwise. If you and your ruffians don't retire from this vicinity within five minutes, we shall open fire ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have been terribly frightened, Noah, said Mrs. Lyon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When you and the boys did not come home from the meeting, I was afraid something had happened to you."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now go home, Ruth, and go to bed, added Noah."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will join you as soon as we have driven off these ruffians, and it won't take long to do it."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are they about now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have sent a dozen men or more down the bank of the creek, and they are out of sight now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are looking for a chance to get across the stream, added the comman... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready! he shouted; and the men all brought themselves into position as they had before been instructed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aim!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, boys, the first order of Colonel Belthorpe was to build a fire, and we will attend to that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course I obey orders, added Artie,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you suppose these stone walls are for, Artie?"
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, boys, if you feel as though you might get a bullet through your heads, you can go into the fort, and you will be safe there,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you not going in, Levi?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am when the occasion requires; ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Seceshers are firing at our people!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ruffians are firing, each on his own hook, for there is no order among them,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Colonel Belthorpe will not stand that sort of thing for any great length of time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They say chance shots sometimes do the most mischief, or I have read it in some story, said Deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope one ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's Indian fighting, said Levi."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our men, from their position, can't see these skulkers, who will have a good chance to pick off some of them at their leisure. We must attend to this matter."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe we hit anybody with those last shots; for as soon as my man dropped and the others could see where the shot came from, they ran away or moved to the other side of the tree,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's a light down the creek, Levi!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's where the logs lay, added the overseer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The squad that was sent down the bank of the stream has got to work at last."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you may go outside, and see what you can see, continued Levi."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mean to hit the men there, or even the raft; but I want you to notice what effect the shot produces upon the ruffians at the work."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did it hit anything, boys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing but a big tree beyond the road, and a large branch fell to the ground,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had an idea that you had been fooling us at first, Levi, added Artie,"
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is my father, Frank?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He's down the road with the rest of them; but I reckon they are all marching back to the bridge,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do with all these horses?"
},
{
"from... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is driving that team?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, Mars'r Deck,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Clinker, sar, wid Bitts and Filly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you do... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Levi sent me over to report what we have been doing,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I heard the report of one of your guns, and I concluded that you had work on your hands,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much work, Colonel. The ruffians were buildin... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going now, Clinker?"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mars'r Deck done tell me a man dropped behind a tree down de creek, and I'm gwine for him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go over and get the small wagon for that; we want this one,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going, father?"
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Filly! called Major Lyon, addressing a mulatto who had the reputation of being a very intelligent fellow,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I have no horse, father,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will go in the wagon, replied his father."
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cross Roads, where four highways came together. At this point the one from the county town passing through Barcreek village crossed the stream. Another road branched off here, leading up the creek, from which the private way over the bridge led to Major Lyon's mansion. It contin... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe the villains can get there before we do, said Colonel Belthorpe, as Major Lyon galloped his horse to his side."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I had anticipated the events of to-night, I should have been prepared for them. My overseer is not a Union... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cristofus! Wat's dat?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "replied Mose, who was by his side on the front seat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dar's trouble dar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I reckon do screeches comed out'n de cross-cut,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon we mus' woke Mars'r Deck,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good, Clinker! shouted Deck, as he saw the blacksmith standing with his musket in his hand, busy doing what he had undertaken."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Keep the fire up!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now follow me, boys! shouted Deck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You had better walk over to the fire, miss, he added to the young lady redeemed from the hands of the ruffian."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clinker will see that no harm comes to you."
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both fall back this way, gentlemen!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now fire at them, one at a time!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't fire again, but follow me!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am sorry you didn't kill him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had to be careful not to hit the lady, replied Deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we have driven them off. Now, boys, in line! shouted the young leader to his men."
},
{
"fro... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know you, sir, but we are under ten thousand obligations to you for this timely assistance,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My name is Dexter Lyon, replied the young defender."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is yours?"
},
{
"from": "g... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I never was so frightened in all my life,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is all over now, and I would not mind any more about it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is Mr. Dexter Lyon, Major, the son of our neighbor, said Tom, presenting the leader ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you please, we will go over to the fire where the other lady is waiting for you, said he, as he started for the point indicated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fall in behind and follow us, boys,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have never happened t... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is my sister, Miss Kate Belthorpe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I am so glad you came when you did, Mr.----"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dexter Lyon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Lyon; and you were as brave as a lion! excl... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is Colonel Belthorpe, General? inquired Deck, after he had saluted the boys in his usual familiar manner; for he had none of the haughtiness of those who were"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't know, Mars'r Deck; he and the oder gen'lemen done went ober dat w... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was afraid you had run away and left us, Mr. Lyon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please don't 'mister' me, replied Deck, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It makes me feel just as though I was a dude."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see you have arrived, said the devoted father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have been worrying about you the last hour; but I concluded Captain Carms would send you home. I left my wagon at the stable of a friend near the schoolhouse, and I have been so busy al... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems that a fight has already come off in the cross-cut, said Colonel Cosgrove, with some excitement in his manner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Major Lyon's man tells us you had a stormy time in the road, Deck. We did not wait to bear the particulars."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is all true, every word of it, papa!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Deck, I am your debtor for life! exclaimed Colonel Belthorpe, detaching himself from the twining arms of his daughter, and rushing to the hero of the night with both hands extended."
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter, General?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not'in' de matter, Mars'r Cunnel, but de rebels is on de road, comin' dis way,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How far off are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About a mile, mars... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we are ready for the enemy, said Major Lyon;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As I have said before, my place is not as favorable for a defence as yours is, Major Lyon, replied the commander."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have no stream or swa... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tilford, something like a hundred ruffians are coming up the two roads for the purpose of burning my mansion and hanging me to the nearest tree, Colonel Belthorpe began in a mild tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With the aid of my friends here, I intend to defend... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The boys will all stand by you, mars'r,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then call two of them"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're all right here, mars'r,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ober on de ole road,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you know what this flag means, you nigger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sar! Mars'r Belthorpe won't hab no more ob dat nonsense,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell him I want to ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take in your flag of truce, or I will fire upon it! shouted the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No more fooling! I don't parley with ruffians!"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, my boys, fire at them at will, just as you please,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Uncle Dave."
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have made a clean sweep here,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been an easy victory, replied the gentleman from the county town."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But they were nothing but a mob; and your boys seem to be lunatics. They are likely to kill the whole of them before they get through."
},
{
"from": "human... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you going now, papa?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have driven off the ruffians from this side, and we are going over to assist Major Lyon, replied the colonel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sam, you will remain here, and look out for the... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you doing here, Tilford?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am wounded and in great pain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then why don't you join your friends?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I made a mistake to-night, and I did not kno... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't understand that gathering,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It looks as though the enemy were using the flag of truce ruse over here,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe Major Lyon would fool with them. They are marauders and disturbers... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father isn't much of a soldier, any more than the rest of us, said Deck, as the major gave the order to halt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If we fire at those scalliwags, they will scatter and run away, as they did at the creek bridge, and be all ready to burn a... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many men do you need?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The four mounted men from your place, Deck, and myself,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well, I give you the order to that effect; but don't you think some older person than Dexter had better ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "consisting of four Riverlawn negroes, were drawn up in front. The twenty Lyndhall hands, miscellaneously armed with clubs and such implements as they had been able to obtain, had also been formed across the road; and they were as eager to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Major Lyon, you seem to have brought everything to a standstill on this portion of the field, said Colonel Belthorpe as he rode up to the planter from Riverlawn after he had taken a full view of the situation."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I see that you have ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Titus seems to have a passion for white flags, said the colonel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He tried that dodge for the second time over on the new road."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And for the third time on this road, added the major."
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall leave you to do all the talking, Colonel Belthorpe,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am quite willing to do the talking, but I may need your advice,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you know that man with the flag, Squire Truman?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I ought to know him, for I prosecuted him for an assault not long ago, replied the lawyer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is Swin Pickford, a bully and a ruffian of t... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I desire to meet Noah Lyon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I decline to meet him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He declines to meet you on the present occasion, replied the commander sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is not exact... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Titus and the mob have really been thoroughly whipped out of their boots, said the overseer, when Deck had finished his narrative."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, as the leader of the ruffians said, we haven't seen the end of this thing yet."
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It won't go off again till you load it, said the overseer, as he rushed up to him, and wrenched the musket from his hand, thinking he might try to use it as a club."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's no fault of yours, except in your aim, that you are not a murderer... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That wasn't a bad scheme of yours to get possession of Colonel Belthorpe's girls, Buck. You meant to trade them off for the arms, I suppose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was just it, Bedford; and if that cub of Lyon's hadn't interfered, we should have had the ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you hear me, you black rascals? demanded the surgeon in a loud tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come here, one of you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't leabe de post, Mars'r Doctor,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-morning, Doctor Falkirk, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not know you were here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew I was here, and I ordered those black scoundrels to assist me, and they refused to do so,"
},
{
"from": "gp... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep the man quiet for a week, and give him anything he wants to eat,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have three more wounded men in the hospital who need a surgeon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are those niggers doing over on the other side of... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are burying a man that fell in the skirmish last night,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What skirmish?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You don't appear to have heard the news, Doctor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What news? I was called... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An Abolition row!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not exactly, Dr. Falkirk; it was a Secession row!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brought about by the insane wrangling of the traitors to the State of Kentucky!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is to be the end of all these disturbances, Noah?"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we all understand what is before us. We are to have war, and I don't believe it will end in a hundred days, as the statesman at Washington says, replied Major Lyon; and even some of his family had learned to apply this title to him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come to see you once more, Noah,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope we shall be peaceable and pleasant this time, even if we cannot agree in everything,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's just what I want, Noah; and I have always tried to m... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I trust you will continue to do so,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a question between us, Noah, continued Titus, struggling to retain his quiet demeanor as he approached the point of difference between them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I won... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Major Lyon, this is Lieutenant Gordon, of the United States Volunteer Service,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very glad to see you, Lieutenant Gordon,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am rejoiced to meet you, Major Lyon; and I am glad to find that ... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are on the very ragged edge of the Rebellion, Major Lyon, said the visitor, as he seated himself at the table."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should say you were not more than fifteen miles from Bowling Green."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I supp... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are my sons, Lieutenant, said Major Lyon, introducing each of them by name."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are stout boys, very nearly eighteen years old, and are good riders. They will be the first recruits to put their names on your paper after mine when... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I had better take one of those revolvers in my pocket, suggested Artie."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I get into any trouble it may be of use to me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you expect to get into any trouble, my boy?"
},
{
... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you had set that flag over your office in the village, it would have been hauled down and trampled under foot inside of an hour,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are the people of this vicinity so disloyal as that? asked Lieutenant Gordon, astonished at the remark."... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this? 'Union Cavalry!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What will you charge for printing two hundred copies of that bill, and doing it while I wait?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "added the man, as he continued to read the placard."
},
{
"... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to have come to me at once, Artie, said the colonel, as the messenger showed him the handbill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That printer runs a Secession paper, and he would lose all his subscribers if it was known that he printed a placard like this. Com... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I signed the letter to General Buell with your father, asking him to send a recruiting officer to this locality, said the colonel, as he conducted his guest to the library."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am very glad he has come. I should have been in favor of esta... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop, boy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you want of me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want them handbills you just got printed, replied the spokesman."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We ain't go'n' to have no Abolition troops enl... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the shot which Artie had fired at the three ruffians who beset him on the road. There was no doubt in the minds of the active men at Riverlawn that the recruiting office would be known to the fullest extent even the day after the bills were posted; for even the women would go... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't want a lot of spies and enemies in our midst, for they will report everything that is done to their friends who have been permitted to visit them,"
}
] |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were right in calling these fellows the ruffians, Major Lyon, said the recruiting officer."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no doubt there are many respectable Secessionists in this part of the State, but I am confident they do not associate with such fellow... |
35206 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fire! fire!"
}
] |
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