How Few Remain (1997)
“He had no trouble making his way south from the German ministry: many, though far from all, of Washington’s civilians had fled north when war broke out, and so traffic was less oppressive than it would have been before the crisis.
Boys still hawked newspapers on the street. From their frantic shouts, some U.S. officer named Custard—Schlieffen didn’t think that could be right, but it was what he kept hearing—had single-handedly massacred a division of Confederates and a whole tribe of Indians so...mewhere out beyond the Mississippi. In a leap of logic that escaped the German military attaché, the war was as a result supposed to be as good as won.
As yet, the war had not made an appearance around Washington. The Confederate States could have pounded the capital of the United States to bits, but had not fired a shot hereabouts. Neither had local U.S. forces; despite big talk, President Blaine was proving more circumspect when it came to action.
But the Confederates had let it be known they were sending an officer across the Long Bridge under flag of truce at noon today.MoreLess
Boys still hawked newspapers on the street. From their frantic shouts, some U.S. officer named Custard—Schlieffen didn’t think that could be right, but it was what he kept hearing—had single-handedly massacred a division of Confederates and a whole tribe of Indians so...mewhere out beyond the Mississippi. In a leap of logic that escaped the German military attaché, the war was as a result supposed to be as good as won.
As yet, the war had not made an appearance around Washington. The Confederate States could have pounded the capital of the United States to bits, but had not fired a shot hereabouts. Neither had local U.S. forces; despite big talk, President Blaine was proving more circumspect when it came to action.
But the Confederates had let it be known they were sending an officer across the Long Bridge under flag of truce at noon today.MoreLess
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