Divided We Fall by C. Alexander London
Author:C. Alexander London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2014-10-15T04:00:00+00:00
I didn’t know where I might begin to hunt for my brother, but I thought that maybe someone in the big military camp might’ve known him, so I took Dash around to the rows and rows of small lean-tos where the enlisted men were laying about, cleaning their guns, playing cards, and boasting of this or that. Again, no one paid me much notice, but they did take a shine to Dash straight away.
“Woo-ee,” said one young private, who had the accent of a Texan. “That there’s a mighty fine hound. Mighty fine!”
“Best hound in all of Mississippi,” I told him, and I let him rub Dash’s head, which Dash liked quite a lot. In fact, he liked it so much, he took to flopping right down on the ground and rolling over on his back for a rub on his belly. Dash’s big lips flopped upside down and his ears splayed out on the dirt beside him, his paws spread open wide, and with his big teeth showing, it looked to all the world like he was smiling.
The private laughed and gave Dash’s belly a good rubbing. The dog’s tail thumped at the dirt, and his back leg twitched when the private hit his ticklish spot, and that made us both laugh. It felt good to laugh and to see Dash happily rolling in the dirt. Took my mind off my worries for Ma and Pa on their way to Cousin Thomas, and off Julius, on the run from the law and from his rightful duty.
The thought of Julius made me lose my smile real fast. “You know if the Fifth Mississippi Infantry is in this camp?” I asked the private. “Or any folks who fought at Chickamauga last September?”
“Chickamauga?” The private stopped rubbing Dash’s belly and met my eyes with a steely stare. “Well, son, I don’t know about the Fifth Mississippi, but I sure fought at Chickamauga under General Gist. Our brigade lost 170 men in under an hour, and I tell you, it was a most fearsome sight. Men falling all over each other in the fight, and then falling all over each other worse in retreat. I ain’t ashamed to say I was scared in that battle, and if I don’t see another like it, that’ll be just fine with me.”
“My brother was in that battle,” I said. I left out the part about him turning deserter. “I’m trying to find folks who might know what’s become of him.”
“Gone missing, eh?” the private asked.
I nodded.
“A lot of that going around,” he said, and I wasn’t sure if he meant a lot of men deserting their service in the army like my brother did, or if he just meant it like he said it. He didn’t explain and he didn’t pry, and I took that as a kindness.
“Me and Dash are gonna find him,” I said, and that made the private smirk a little.
“Listen here,” he told me. “Best thing you can do, if you want to find someone who maybe, for whatever reason, don’t want to be found, you gotta think like him.
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