Jernigan's War by Ken Gallender

Author:Ken Gallender
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781482634457
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-08-14T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

HELL COMES TO THE RANCH

A week later Cooney Jones was on the shortwave and Porter actually got to speak with him. Porter gave Cooney a rundown of what had happened to the family. You could hear the sadness in his voice when he acknowledged the death of his son, grandson and daughter in law.

He told Porter, “I want you to stay put, all hell is breaking loose out here and it would be impossible to cross all the lines. I’m backing up the Constitution Army. Your orders are to obey Charlie and Bonnie. The Chinese may be coming through there either on their way across the country or retreated from here. If you and I live to spring, we’ll decide what we’ll do, for now put Charlie back on the radio and leave the room. And Porter, I’m proud of how you’ve handled yourself and I love you.”

Charlie kicked Porter out and got on the radio with Cooney. He mashed the microphone key, “What’s the scoop, Sarge?”

Cooney told him, “We’re going to be catching hell, we’ve got a small group of Constitution troops here; the local sportsmen are doing the heavy lifting. We’ve had one old guy about our age who has been cleaning house, remember the name, Dix Jernigan. His family was wiped out and he has literally been a one man army. I took a bad hit from a stray bullet 30 days ago. It broke the femur in my right leg; I’m in bed right now out on my farm. It was a real bad break, it is healing mighty slow. It’s a good thing I had some penicillin on hand that I kept for the cows.”

Charlie laughed, “Yeah that cow medicine is good for about anything. In fact, you might want to think about using some of that Udder Balm on your leg, too.”

Cooney chuckled, “We have an old retired doctor and a vet out here in the country that patched me up. Some of the boys brought the radio out here so I could call. I’ve had them moving all my supplies down to the old boat camp back in the swamp. I’ve had a big old house boat down there for years. They’ll be moving me down there tomorrow.”

“I figure I’ll be hearing from you come spring then. The hair is thick on the deer this year, I fear it will be a winter to remember. It’s already snowed here once.”

“It snowed here too, the first time in at least 10 years. Train the boy, give him that deer rifle I keep there as a spare when I come. It’s a shooter, in fact if I hadn’t spent $1,800 on my new rifle, I’d suck up my pride and keep shooting my old gun. The day is going to come when that boy may need to kill somebody and I want him trained.”

Charlie interrupted, “That boy has killed six men that he knows for sure and possibly another. His cute little blond girlfriend

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