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Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
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Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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nd the fellows who were in the trenchesmust have been frost-bitten. I know we had no shelter andwere hungry besides, as rations had given out, and had nobodyround to ask us in to take dinner with em. We had pulledup stakes at Cairo, and had to go up the Ohio to Smithland,and then up the Cumberland River. Cavalry was no good inthat country, for there was too much big timber, and the groundwas too rough. We were kept busy trying to plant a battery,for those fellows in gray have some sharpshooters wonhy of theirname, and though not one of them showed himself, it was whiz!pang! every few minutes, and some one was sure to go down.We lost Eddie Downing that way. Al paused a moment to brush an imaginary fly from beforehis eyes. Eddie Downing was shot? He was a noble boy. Sohes dead! Al nodded assent. Wheres George Martin? Do you know what regimenthe joined? Oh, sure. He was in the gunboat service. Poor fellow,he fared worse than Eddie. He was on the Cumberland andhad his right arm shot away.
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GENERAL GRANT.163 164 RALPH IS ENTHUSIASTIC. Is he at home? He was sent home as soon as the stump healed, and hisonly regret is, so his father says, that it wasnt the left arm, forhe declares hed try it again. But of course they wouldnt havehim in any branch of the service. Of course not. But George always had grit. But howdid you come out at Fort Donelson? We had taken Fort Henry, but didnt feel so certain aboutDonelson. General Buckner had swelled the Confederate num-bers there by about ten thousand men. Then the fort stoodon high ground, and had a fine batte:y on the river front, aswell as several lines of strong fortifications onal describes the land side, such as immense logs, bags of sand,ELSON fight. an<^ bunches of brush and sharp sticks. Theywere well protected, and their riflemen were inlittle pits dug in the side of a hill. All the time the weatherstaid stinging cold, and we suffered terribly. But it was inter-

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