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Richard Boone's Black. The Burning Barn: Speed and Hattie In Civil War Missouri
Part One. A Boy Named Speed. Chapter 1–– April 1835 –– Leaving Whitley County
Chapter 2––April 1835–– Down the River
Chapter 3––April 1835––People Ain’t Property
Chapter 4––Autumn 1835––Liberty, Clay County
Part Two. A Farmer Takes a Wife. Chapter 5––1838 and After––A Burning Bush
Chapter 6––1844, 1846 and 1851––Hattie’s Secret
Chapter 7––July 1851 and Before—Decisions
Chapter 8––February 1852––A Kiss In the Cold
Part Three. Gratiot Street Prison. Chapter 9––1896––Back in the 1850s
Chapter 10––July 1863—It All Blew Up
Chapter 11––July 1863––An American Soldier
Chapter 12––August 1863––The Interview
Chapter 13––August 1863––Observations
Chapter 14––September 1863––The Post
Chapter 15––September 1863––Footfalls Overhead
Part Four. Love Letters. Chapter 16–– October 1863––Crossing the Line
Chapter 17––November 1863––Lawyer Craig
Chapter 18––December 1863––Light Under the Blanket
Chapter 19––December 1863––There’s Work Aplenty
Chapter 20––December 1863––A Jayhawker in the Barn
Chapter 21––December 1863––Old Davis, She is Very Sick
Part Five. Full of the Knowledge. Chapter 22––December 1863––The Top Hat
Chapter 23––December 1863––Buster
Chapter 24—January 1864––The Bath
Chapter 25––January 1864––After the Rooster Crowed
Chapter 26––April 1864––A Headache on a Day in Spring
Chapter 27––October 1864––He Did Evil
Chapter 28––November-December 1864––Tidings
Chapter 29––Summer 1865––Standing on the Spot
Chapter 30––November 1865–– Dwell In Peace
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Dark was coming fast to the Southern Kentucky hollows in late April of 1835 when Speed knocked softly at Aunt Ruth’s porch door. She called, “I been hoping you’d come. You need another lesson.” She sat in her front parlor, not in the schoolroom out back where he and his schoolmates had their lessons. A lamp lit her face. He thought she looked schoolmarm stern. Speed was impatient to get back to the cabin, to get on with preparations for departure, and just wanted to give Aunt Ruth a polite goodbye. At twelve years old he was growing fast and stood as tall as she. His brown hair hung into his blue eyes, covering several of the random freckles about his face. Aunt Ruth didn’t stand, but remained seated in her best wingback chair. “Bring that stool up and read for me, read just one last time.” She opened her Bible, the big family Bible, which listed the births, marriages, and deaths of the Wilson family. Speed always looked at the carefully lettered roster, taking particular note of his own entry (John Speed Smith Wilson, b. 1823 d.…), his father’s, (David Winston Wilson…b.1795 d. 1825), and his aunt’s (Ruth Jean Wilson, b. 1783...d….) The old lady let him satisfy his curiosity, and then she pointed to a passage in the book of Isaiah.
Speed looked at the lettering, printed large, as he balanced the great book on his knees. At first he did not recognize the words as he read in a high-pitched, halting voice: “But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his mouth he shall slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.” Then he got control of his man voice, a smooth deeper voice, so that he could read the familiar lion and the lamb passage. “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.”
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Since Simmons seemed to be taking time to respond, Joycie said, “Maybe you can read what come just above Exodus 3. Seems like it’s what they are discussing.”
Speed read, “And it came to pass in the process of time that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of bondage….”
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