Loras College - Purgold Yearbook (Dubuque, IA)

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kicks off with Shenandoah n-up-4...-1 Waiting for the marriage of the Anderson girl. Jenny, to a Confederate soldier. Sam. fi' 'Q H Jenny fKatie Gallagherj looks with eyes of love at her fiance Sam fDave Georgej and wonders if she's Over the HilI. - 1 1 s I Charlie tells the Boy. The Pickers are Comin'. Meditation . . . Charlie calls on his beloved Martha for guidance. leftl The father with his future son-in-law. Above and Right! Violets and Silverbells at a beautiful wedding and start of a new life together. L,,, The central figure in this neopolitan play is Charles Anderson CDon Striblingj, a widower ruling with an iron but caressing hand over a large Virginia spread and a large family C6 sons and a daughterj to match. Anderson raises both his crops and family capably, although often seeking guidance from his dear. departed Martha for the latter department. For the major part of the first act, the audience sees the playful banter of a loving family, with only occasional bursts of disagreement over involvement in the war between Charles and his son James fBarak Striblingj. But there are always reminders of the war present: the distant roar of guns, Southern officers attempting the recruit the Anderson sons. dead soldiers on Anderson land. Little by little the ugliness and treachery of the Civil War peck away at Charles' vow to Martha of neutrality and family unity, climaxing in Act I with the kidnapping of the Boy CBrian Peckj, Charles' youngest and favorite son, by Union soldiers. In Act ll, Charles feels he has no choice but to search for the Boy, thus completely breaking his vow of neutrality. along with his vow of unity, as he must seperate the family in order to search. The decision has tragic results, as James and his wife Anne fCathy Renkj. left to run the farm. are ruthlessly murdered by scavengers. and Charles' oldest son, Jacob QPhiI Reitzj, is killed by a Confederate soldier who mistook Jacob for a Union soldier. Charles returns home a beaten man. not only losing three other members of his family. but also unable to locate the Boy. Anderson finds some consolation in the fact that James and Anne's child survived, and that the search did uncover Sam QDave Georgej, a Southern officer newly wed to Charles' daughter, Jenny QKatie Gal- lagherj, and who had been kept prisioner by the North. But Anderson must not only contend with the agony of his fateful and possibly wrong decision to search. but also with his vengeful act of killing the soldier who killed Jacob. the ultimate act of involvement in the war.