Valley of the Shadow: a Novel
“Colonel Charles Tompkins told his subordinate. “Keep up your fires.”“But General Wright—”“General Wright can remove me, should he find my performance wanting. Back to your labors, Captain, mind on the enemy.”Tompkins, commanding the Sixth Corps artillery, found alarm distasteful. If Wright had lost his stomach—which it appeared he had, ordering off these guns—a stoic posture was the proper tonic. In the best spirit of Rhode Island, his home state. He drew his pistol, though, as he steered betwe...en the caissons: not in fear of Confederates, but ready to shoot any cannoneer who ran.The situation did have a nasty look. The field of battle was as confused as any Tompkins had known, and these guns were all that stood between the oncoming Confederates and a stolen victory. But a cool eye and steady hand calmed many a storm. Even if, in the end, he could not stop the Johnnies, he might at least give the infantry time to reorganize and leave things a bit less bad.“Steady, steady,”MoreLess
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