Excerpt from Burying the Hatchet, or the Veteran's Daughter: Dedicated to the 100th Illinois Regiment

The Opening scene is upon the banks of the Ohio river near Cincinnati, sixteen years before the war of the Rebellion, to wit 1845. Donald Grovenor. (the son ofa Louisiana planter, ) steals the (white) child of his former lady love, Lillian Ludlow, now wife of Gerald Hamilton. He takes berto one Baxterlwho keeps a slave pen on the Mississippi; bargains that she should be sold to his friend, George Singleton, who has an infant daughter and who wishes to have a companion near her own age. This arrangement is perfected. Both girls are educated and taught such accomplishments as are fitting for the highest places in re fined society. The child is named Geraldine; she has always supposed herself to be Geo. Singleton s own daughter. Geo. S. Has always treated her as such, showing no paitiality to either The Hamiltons go north and locate near Elgin, Ill. Gerald Hamilton, the father Of little Lillian (stolen child) dies soon after their removal north. The son, Gerald Hamilton, of the play, is Seventeen years of age when he enlists in the war.' Harry Clay ton, a young man of wealth and good family, lost his parents in infancy and has spent much of his time with the Hamiltons and looks upon Mrs. Hamilton more as a mother than anything else. The boys know the story of little Lillian and are deeply interest cd therein. The war breaks out. They enlist in the tooth Illi nois Regiment and become acquainted with the, Misses Single ton through the medium of the colored girl, Dusky. They no tice the wonderful resemblance between Geraldine Singleton and Mrs. Hamilton. Jed, the yankee, sent down with the boys from the north for the especial purpose of tracing the child if possible, finds a clew and runs the game to earth. The remain der Ofthe plot will be understood as the play goes on.

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