Lincoln (2011)
“She had known him as a boy. He was an exact contemporary of Little Aleck. Mary sat in a straight chair beside his cot, which was at the end of one aisle in the main display room of the Patent Office. Next to the cot a glass-enclosed piece of complex machinery, patented in an earlier time, somewhat screened them from the view of the curious.
Corporal Stone was red-haired and soft-spoken; he had lost both legs at Chancellorsville in Virginia, where the Union army, under “Fighting Joe” Hooker, had... been outfought by General Lee and driven back across the Rappahannock.
“But it will be hard for us, losing Stonewall Jackson like that.” General Jackson had been accidentally killed by one of his own snipers.
“Did you know General Jackson?” Mary arranged the small bouquet of hothouse roses in a mug on the table beside his cot. She tried to inhale only the odor of the roses and not that of the chamber pots that seemed never to be emptied.
“Oh, I saw him. But I never spoke to him. He was a strange sort of man, very religious.”MoreLess
Corporal Stone was red-haired and soft-spoken; he had lost both legs at Chancellorsville in Virginia, where the Union army, under “Fighting Joe” Hooker, had... been outfought by General Lee and driven back across the Rappahannock.
“But it will be hard for us, losing Stonewall Jackson like that.” General Jackson had been accidentally killed by one of his own snipers.
“Did you know General Jackson?” Mary arranged the small bouquet of hothouse roses in a mug on the table beside his cot. She tried to inhale only the odor of the roses and not that of the chamber pots that seemed never to be emptied.
“Oh, I saw him. But I never spoke to him. He was a strange sort of man, very religious.”MoreLess
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