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war-worn.--Act 4. Civil Costume, Prince Albert, &c.
KERCHIVAL WEST.--Act I. Full Evening Dress.--Acts 2 and 3.
Uniform of Colonel of Cavalry, U.S. Vol., 1864 (with cloak in Act 3).
Active Service, rough and war-worn.--Act 4. Travelling.
CAPTAIN HEARTSEASE.--Act 2. Uniform of Captain of Cavalry,
1864; as neat and precise as is consistent with Active Service.--Act 4.
Afternoon; Civil.
LIEUTENANT FRANK BEDLOE.--Act 2. Lieutenant of Cavalry,
1864; Active Service. He must have a full beard.--Act 3. Same,
disarranged for wounded man on stretcher.
GENERAL BUCKTHORN.--Acts 2 and 3. Major-General, 1864.
Active Service.--Act 3. Same.--Act 4. Civil. Afternoon.
SERGEANT BARKET.--Acts 2 and 3. Sergeant of Cavalry, U.S. Vol.,
1864. Active Service.--Act 4. Plain undress uniform, sacque or jacket.
ROBERT ELLINGHAM.--Act I. Full Evening Dress.--Act 2.
Confederate Colonel: Infantry, 1864. Active Service.--Act 4. Citizen;
afternoon. Prince Albert (Gray).
EDWARD THORNTON.--Act I. Riding, but not present English
Cut.--Act 2. First, Confederate Captain of Cavalry. Active Service.
Second costume, same, in shirt sleeves and without hat or cap.
HARDWICK.--Uniform of Confederate Surgeon, 1864. Active
Service.
CORPORAL DUNN.--Uniform of rank, Cavalry, U.S. Vol., 1864.
Active Service.
BENSON.--Uniform of 2nd Corporal, Cavalry, U.S. Vol., 1864. Active
Service.
LIEUTENANT OF INFANTRY.--Uniform of rank, U.S. Vol., 1864.
Active Service.
MRS. HAVERILL.--Act I. Full evening ball dress.--Act 4. Mourning,
but not too deep.
GERTRUDE ELLINGHAM.--Act I. Riding habit.--Act 2. First
costume, afternoon at home; simple enough for the South during war.
Second costume, picturesque and not conventional dress and hat for
riding.--Act 3. First costume of Act 2, or similar.--Act 4. Neat
travelling costume.

MADELINE WEST.--Act I. Full evening ball dress.--Act 2. Pretty
afternoon costume.--Act 3. Same or walking.--Act 4. Afternoon
costume at home.
JENNY BUCKTHORN.--Act 2. Pretty afternoon costume, with
military cut, trimmings and general air.--Act 3. Same.--Act 4.
Afternoon costume at home.
MRS. EDITH HAVERILL.--Young widow's costume.
OLD MARGERY.--Neat old family servant.
JANNETTE.--Young servant.

FOR PROGRAMME
In ACT I, just before the opening of the war, HAVERILL is a Colonel
in the Regular Army. KERCHIVAL WEST and ROBERT
ELLINGHAM are Lieutenants in his regiment, having been classmates
at West Point.
ACT I.
CHARLESTON HARBOUR IN 1861. AFTER THE BALL.
The citizens of Charleston knew almost the exact hour at which the
attack on Fort Sumter would begin, and they gathered in the gray
twilight of the morning to view the bombardment as a
spectacle.--NICOLAY, _Campaigns of the Civil War, Vol. I._
"I shall open fire in one hour."--BEAUREGARD'S last message to
MAJOR ANDERSON. _Sent at 3:20 A.M., April 12, 1861_.
ACTS II. AND III.
The Union Army, under General Sheridan, and the Confederate Army,
under General Early, were encamped facing each other about twenty
miles south of Winchester, on Cedar Creek. * * * General Sheridan was
called to Washington. Soon after he left, a startling despatch was taken
by our own Signal Officers from the Confederate Signal Station on
Three Top Mountain.--POND, _Camp. Civ. War, Vol. XI._
On the morning of October 19th, the Union Army was taken
completely by surprise. Thoburn's position was swept in an instant.
Gordon burst suddenly upon the left flank. The men who escaped
capture streamed through the camps along the road to
Winchester.--POND, _supra._
Far away in the rear was heard cheer after cheer.--_Three Years in the
Sixth Corps._

ACT IV.
WASHINGTON, 1865. RESIDENCE OF GENERAL BUCKTHORN.
I feel that we are on the eve of a new era, when there is to be great
harmony between the Federal and Confederate.--GEN. GRANT'S
_Memoirs._

SHENANDOAH
ACT I.
CHARLESTON HARBOUR IN 1861. "AFTER THE BALL."
SCENE. _A Southern Residence on the shore of Charleston Harbour.
Interior.--Large double doors up centre, open. Large, wide window,
with low sill. Veranda beyond the doors, and extending beyond
window. A wide opening with corridor beyond. Furniture and
appointments quaint and old-fashioned, but an air of brightness and of
light; the general tone of the walls and upholstery that of the old
Colonial period in its more ornamental and decorative phase, as shown
in the early days of Charleston. Old candlesticks and candelabra, with
lighted candles nearly burned down. Beyond the central doors and the
window, there is a lawn with Southern foliage, extending down to the
shores of the harbour; a part of the bay lies in the distance, with
low-lying land beyond. The lights of Charleston are seen over the water
along the shore. Moonlight. The gray twilight of early morning
gradually steals over the scene as the Act progresses._
DISCOVERED, As the curtain rises KERCHIVAL WEST _is sitting in
a chair, his feet extended and his head thrown back, a handkerchief
over his face_. ROBERT ELLINGHAM _strolls in on veranda, beyond
window, smoking. He looks right, starts and moves to window; leans
against the upper side of the window and looks across._
ELLINGHAM. Kerchival!
KERCHIVAL. [Under handkerchief.] Eh? H'm!
ELLINGHAM. Can you sleep at a