Bring the Boys Home (1997)
“Although General Grant had assured soldiers rides on public transportation, the trains overflowed with men trying to get home. Many set forth walking, but Nelson knew that this would not do for his family. Eileen had to have something better than a walk back to Kentucky.
For two days he worried about how to get a wagon, horses, some means of transportation. He said little to the family, but he was gone most of those two days trying to arrange something. When he came back home at the end of the ...second day, however, he was greeted by an old friend, Uncle Silas, Leah’s elderly uncle.
“Silas! You’re back!”
“I surely am, boy, and just in time to do a job, it seems.”
Silas had a fine white beard and bright blue eyes. He had had the good fortune to put his money into Northern stocks before the war, so that now the fall of the Confederacy had not bankrupted him.
“I guess they’ve been telling you we’re going back to Kentucky, Silas,” Nelson said when they were seated at the kitchen table.MoreLess
For two days he worried about how to get a wagon, horses, some means of transportation. He said little to the family, but he was gone most of those two days trying to arrange something. When he came back home at the end of the ...second day, however, he was greeted by an old friend, Uncle Silas, Leah’s elderly uncle.
“Silas! You’re back!”
“I surely am, boy, and just in time to do a job, it seems.”
Silas had a fine white beard and bright blue eyes. He had had the good fortune to put his money into Northern stocks before the war, so that now the fall of the Confederacy had not bankrupted him.
“I guess they’ve been telling you we’re going back to Kentucky, Silas,” Nelson said when they were seated at the kitchen table.MoreLess
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