[The Guns of Shiloh by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Guns of Shiloh CHAPTER II 5/42
Besides being cousins, there are other things to make Harry and me think a lot of each other.
Oh, he's a grand fellow, even if he is on the wrong side!" Dick's eyes sparkled with enthusiasm as he spoke of the cousin and comrade of his childhood. "The chances of war bring about strange situations, or at least I have heard so," said Warner.
"Now, Dick, if you were to meet your cousin face to face on the battlefield with a loaded gun in your hand what would you do ?" "I'd raise that gun, take deliberate aim at a square foot of air about thirty feet over his head and pull the trigger." "But your duty to your country tells you to do otherwise.
Before you is a foe trying to destroy the Union.
You have come out armed to save that Union, consequently you must fire straight at him and not at the air, in order to reduce the number of our enemies." "One enemy where there are so many would not count for anything in the total.
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