[The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tree of Appomattox CHAPTER II 28/45
We were fired upon from this house.
The man who did it has had no opportunity to escape, and I'm sure that he's still concealed within these walls." "Seek and ye shall--not find," she half quoted. "I must search the house." "Proceed." "First question her," the sergeant whispered in the young lieutenant's ear. Dick nodded. "Pardon me, madame," he said, "but I must obtain information from you. This is war, you know." "I have had many rude reminders that it is so." "Where is your husband ?" She pointed upward. "Forgive me," said Dick impulsively.
"I did not intend to recall a grief." "Don't worry.
You and your comrades will never intrude upon him there." "Perhaps you have sons here in this house ?" "I have three, but they are not here." "Where are they ?" "One fell with Jackson at Chancellorsville.
It was a glorious death, but he is not dead to me.
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