The Storm Before Atlanta (2010)
“He didn’t actually know where he was going, except that they were headed west. The flat fields of Ohio rolled past outside the open door.
Most of the soldiers in the car had been in the 107th since it was mustered in at Elmira, New York, a year ago. There’d been over a thousand of them then, and now there weren’t five hundred. They didn’t think much of Jeremy as a soldier—he was pretty sure his new messmates had only accepted him because Nicholas made them. The soldier who’d threatened to put J...eremy’s head through his drum back in Washington, Lars, was in the mess too.
“ ’Member that first night we slept out in the fields outside of D.C.?” said Lars. “We thought we were soldiers then!”
Nicholas laughed at the memory. “Yeah, roughing it, weren’t we? Up till then it was always barracks. We had barracks in Elmira.”
“Then they marched us right off to Antietam, and then we found out what soldiering was,” said Dave.
If it’d been anyone else Jeremy would’ve suspected them of saying this just to make Jeremy feel like he wasn’t a real soldier.MoreLess
Most of the soldiers in the car had been in the 107th since it was mustered in at Elmira, New York, a year ago. There’d been over a thousand of them then, and now there weren’t five hundred. They didn’t think much of Jeremy as a soldier—he was pretty sure his new messmates had only accepted him because Nicholas made them. The soldier who’d threatened to put J...eremy’s head through his drum back in Washington, Lars, was in the mess too.
“ ’Member that first night we slept out in the fields outside of D.C.?” said Lars. “We thought we were soldiers then!”
Nicholas laughed at the memory. “Yeah, roughing it, weren’t we? Up till then it was always barracks. We had barracks in Elmira.”
“Then they marched us right off to Antietam, and then we found out what soldiering was,” said Dave.
If it’d been anyone else Jeremy would’ve suspected them of saying this just to make Jeremy feel like he wasn’t a real soldier.MoreLess
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