Escape Through War Tides A Civil War Episode
In a Confederate camp Gen Lee entrusts Capt Wayne with a secret message to Longstreet. Wayne, with Sergt Craig and a Northern-inclined captive, pursues escape amid danger, deception, and a perilous ride toward safety as war rages and a mysterious figure offers aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen
Lee
Wayne
Longstreet
Sergt
Craig
My Lady of the North
Jed Bungay
Red Lawrie
Maj. Brennan
Union
Shirldan
Edith Brennan
Ma. Brennan
Jed Boney
Gen. Lee
Besarath
Wth
Brennan
Haye
Vnes
Fenseless
Edith Adieu
Uberty
Bungay
Esrv
Shenandoah
Ghostly veteran trudges through spring dawns of battle memory
In Chapter XXV a pale, wounded survivor, fresh from war, trudges along a sunlit road. Soldiers stare, mistaking him for a ghost of a dead comrade, his blood-stained uniform and untrimmed hair marking him as a witness to fierce days of battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bit
Rnse
Tronen
Dong
The Love Story or A Gray Jacket by J Can Del Parish
Confederate officer tale follows Captain Wayne as he reenters service after mistaken death. General Lee greets him while Maitland assigns a scouting mission with a starved army at the valley edge and a wary guide joins the patrol.
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Jcandale Parish
King
Arthur T. William ON
Cortiot
CLARG
Lee
Maitland
General Lee
St. Mary’s Hospital
Richmond
Virginia Cavalry
Virginia
Philip Wayne
Captain Wayne
The
Brennan
Federal Service
Wayne
The Scouting Detail and a Jealous Conflict
The narrator reflects on Brennan's premeditated insult aimed to provoke him. He recalls Brennan as hard and revengeful yet not entirely bad. He questions whether jealousy has driven the rift and wonders if he could ever value the man as a comrade.
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Minersville
Vel
Virginia Cavalry
Wayne
Carlson
Brennan
Women Seek Timeless Secret Behind Youthful Image
A humorous remark notes that a woman’s refusal to reveal her age is seen as her greatest delight. The quip frames age as a private trait and age-guessing as a common social game.
Easter Millinery Logic Sparks After Theater Supper
George Ade quips during an after theater supper in Chicago about Easter hats and logic. He recalls a boy asking what a wide awake hat is and the father replying it is a hat without a nap, framing humor on fashion and reason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Ade
Chicago
Must Have Had Money
Jacob visits a friend to see the new bride and quietly comments on her appearance. Joseph explains the bride has a glass eye teeth and is nearly bald and deaf. The jokes hinge on the bride’s disabilities and on Jacob asking louder.
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Jacob
Joseph
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Honeywell
Cowskin
Ebers
Moe
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Jed
Cay
Beelzebub
Maria
Aid
Nester NO Taye
Sterling, Illinois
Cohen
Heneffer
Wisconsin
Post
Pocium Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek
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