Glory by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Historical, Romance, General
ISBN: 9780451408488
Google: f3hSo2bLTuwC
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Published: 1999-02-14T18:30:00+00:00

Sweat dripped into Julian’s eyes.

Inside the tent the heat seemed to shimmer around him with a brutality that intensified that of the wounds inflicted during battle. He’d been told that Florida was a hot, mosquito-infested state, but he’d never been as hot in his native land as he was here in Virginia.

Not a full week ago, he’d been at his base camp, and God help him, but he’d liked it when he’d been the ranking militia officer, giving the orders. Now he was a captain in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was respected, given command of his field hospital. The officers around him were willing to oblige him, but there were so many areas in which he was now out of control.

He’d joined the regular army by way of the railroads, arriving at this camp outside Brandy Station. Just two days ago, the great Confederate General Jeb Stuart—dubbed “Beauty” by his West Point classmates for his homely face now made more dashing by a full, thick beard—had held a review of his troops to the entertainment and pleasure of the local ladies. But Stuart had been caught by surprise by Federal cavalry looking for Lee’s troop movements, and what was ensuing was a battle with twenty thousand horsemen, almost evenly divided.

Brent had been with these troops until just before the battle, and Julian had arrived only in time to be told his cousin had anxiously waited to see him, but then been sent on to take control of the hospital facility outside Richmond.

Sweat dripped into his eyes again. His orderly saw that he was nearly blinded and wiped his brow. He was a good solid fellow, but not one of his own men. They were busy trying to pull more wounded from the field, bring them in, give them a chance …

He could have wept. There was no time, no time …

“Sir, look, the bullet,” Thomas, his young orderly, commented.

A broken leg, but the bullet had gone almost cleanly through. “I see, Thomas. Give me the bullet extractor.”

“Do you have time?”

“Yes, give me the extractor.”

Time …

Was he risking another man’s life while he took the precious time to operate so this man could walk again? God, he had to work so fast.

He felt a strange tremor seize him. In the midst of this madness, an irritating sense of longing crept into his soul.

If only she were here with him. Strange, she said she despised him, but when her eyes touched his, he never doubted himself. Perhaps he saw in her the same. Maybe it was all belief. She believed that he could work miracles. He believed that she could heal.

If only she could believe in the truth …

“Sir, it’s clear. We’ll get him off the table and get him splinted.”

“You’re a good man, Thomas.”

“No, sir. You’re a good doctor.”

Thomas shouted for help, and the man was moved from Julian’s operating table. As soon as he was gone, another was brought.

“Gut-shot, sir!” the assistant surgeon cried.

So why bring him to me? He almost shouted aloud.

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