| The Shades of the Wilderness Joseph Alexander Altsheler Contributor(s): Benitez, Paula (Editor), Altsheler, Joseph Alexander (Author) |
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ISBN: 1974447189 ISBN-13: 9781974447183 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.34 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 6" W x 9" (0.62 lbs) 188 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A train of wagons and men wound slowly over the hills in the darkness and rain toward the South. In the wagons lay fourteen or fifteen thousand wounded soldiers, but they made little noise, as the wheels sank suddenly in the mud or bumped over stones. Although the vast majority of them were young, boys or not much more, they had learned to be masters of themselves, and they suffered in silence, save when some one, lost in fever, uttered a groan. But the chief sound was a blended note made by the turning of wheels, and the hoofs of horses sinking in the soft earth. The officers gave but few orders, and the cavalrymen who rode on either flank looked solicitously into the wagons now and then to see how their wounded friends fared, though they seldom spoke. |