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Warren Lee Goss. Jed's Boy
Jed's Boy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE TRAMP BOY
CHAPTER II. WORKING ON THE FARM
CHAPTER III. IMPENDING WAR CLOUDS
CHAPTER IV. WITH THE COLORS
CHAPTER V. FROM CAMP TO TRANSPORT
CHAPTER VI. IN BEAUTIFUL FRANCE
CHAPTER VII. IN THE TRENCHES
CHAPTER VIII “WHO COMES THERE?”
CHAPTER IX. A CALL RETURNED
CHAPTER X. IN REST BILLET
CHAPTER XI. A SIX WEEKS’ HIKE THROUGH FRANCE
CHAPTER XII. ON THE BATTLE LINES
CHAPTER XIII. IN THE TIDE OF BATTLE
CHAPTER XIV. THE CROIX DE GUERRE
CHAPTER XV. ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE
CHAPTER XVI. A STRANGE DESERTION
CHAPTER XVII. ANOTHER DESERTER
CHAPTER XVIII. A RAID ON THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XIX. THE GERMAN PEACE STORM
CHAPTER XX. AN ADVENTURE OF ARMS
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XXII. HELD BY THE ENEMY
CHAPTER XXIII. A HAZARD OF FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXIV. LOOSE AMONG THE BOCHES
CHAPTER XXV. AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER
CHAPTER XXVI. A HOSPITAL CASE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE MIX-UP OF BATTLE
CHAPTER XXVIII. A MYSTERY SOLVED
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
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Warren Lee Goss
A Story of Adventures in the Great World War
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He had married my mother some years younger than he, quite late in life, and I was their only child. He had died before I remembered much about him.
One day Jot noticed the sword and read its inscription. He removed his hat reverently and said: “I would like to be a brave soldier like him. My mother’s only brother, Lieutenant Jedediah Hoskins, was killed while leading a charge, just before the surrender at Appomattox. She was but a little child when that occurred, but she had his back pay and other property to help us, and often called me Jed’s Boy, hoping that I would be like him.”
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