Peyton Farqhuar was a well-to-do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner, and, like other slave owners, a politician, he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Circumstances of an imperious nature kept Farqhuar from being able to join the very army in which he had fought the disastrous campaigns and had chafed under the glorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, …showed first 75 words of 620 total…

…showed last 75 words of 620 total…wait to embrace her. And just as he was reaching to hold her, he felt a sharp blow to the back of his head. White blazing lights all about him, with a sound like a shock of cannon. Then all of a sudden-darkness then silence! How ironic. Farqhuar was afraid to die and avoided death throughout the whole situation. The death that he was expecting, he avoided. The death he received was the unexpected one.