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Stolen Plantation - An Inspiring True Story of a Civil War Soldier's Daughter (Paperback)
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Stolen Plantation - An Inspiring True Story of a Civil War Soldier's Daughter (Paperback)
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In 1860 Margaret Duncan, was ten years old living on a large
graceful old plantation with her family near Forsythe, Missouri.
The country was immersed in the Civil War and her father had left
their home to fight for the Confederate army. Bushwahackers and
Jayhawkers were attacking plantations, raiding, robbing and
murdering people. Margaret's family was attacked and forced to flee
for their lives leaving behind their beautiful old plantation to
find themselves in constant danger. The bushwackers were some of
there own neighbors and distant cousins. They felt that her
father's sympathies with the South gave them reason to invade his
plantation. The invaders threatened to tar and feather the children
if they were not given money. Margaret's mother was in bed about to
deliver another child Dora. The invaders ransacked every room in
the house. Margaret watched this wanton distruction, helpless to
stop them. She followed them from room to room trying to protect
their family's treasures. The invaders ripped all the feather beds
hoping to find money and feathers were flying everywhere. It was
when Margaret found the bushwackers upstairs trying on her father's
wedding clothes and stealing her Mother's beautiful dresses that
she reached the climax of outrage and indignation. How could a
little girl stop the hatred that the war had started? Margaret ran
out of the house after the invaders to see them round up their
beautiful horses, livestock and drive off in the family wagons
loaded with stolen property. Margaret did not realize at the time
that her determination to save her family and to live through this
war was going to be her complete responsibility. Forced to move
several times and falling into poverty, her mother contracted a
fever and died during the war, leaving Margaret alone with her four
sibilings. Margaret's indomitable will to care for her siblings and
to keep her family safe brings to mind the strong bonds that join
families and a nation.
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