The Red Acorn
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John McElroy. The Red Acorn
Preface
Chapter I. A Declaration
Chapter II. First Shots
Chapter III. A Race
Chapter IV. Disgrace
Chapter V. The Lint-scraping and Bandage-making Union
Chapter VI. The Awakening
Chapter VII. Pomp and Circumstances of Glorious War
Chapter VIII. The Tedium of Camp
Chapter IX. On the March
Chapter X. The Mountaineer’s Revenge
Chapter XI. Through the Mountains and the Night
Chapter XII. Aunt Debby Brill
Chapter XIII. “An Apple Jack Raid.”
Chapter XIV. In the Hospital
Chapter XV. Making an Acquaintance with Duty
Chapter XVI. The Ambuscade
Chapter XVII. Alspaugh on a Bed of Pain
Chapter XVIII. Secret Service
Chapter XIX. The Battle of Stone River
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Of all human teachers they were the grandest who gave us the New Testament, and made it a textbook for Man in every age. Transcendent benefactors of the race, they opened in it a never-failing well-spring of the sweet waters of Consolation and Hope, which have flowed over, fertilized, and made blossom as a rose the twenty-century wide desert of the ills of human existence.
But they were not poets, as most of the authors of the Old Testament were.
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“Hold on, my weak-kneed patriot,” said Kent Edwards, catching Jake Alspaugh by the collar, and turning him around so that he faced the enemy again. “It’s awful bad manners to rush out of a matinee just as the performance begins. You disturb the people who’ve come to enjoy the show. Keep you seat till the curatin goes down. You’ll find enough to interest you.”
The same sudden inspiration of common-sense that had flashed upon Captain Bennett, in encountering the snake now raised him to the level of this emergency. He comprehended that the volley they had received had emptied every Rebel gun. The distance was so short that the enemy could be reached before they had time to re-load. But no time must be lost in attempting to form, or in having the order regularly given by the Colonel. He sprang toward the enemy, waving his sword, and shouted in tones that echoed back from the cliffs:
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