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Weekly Contest #197
Topic: A soldier seeks to escape his fate. Word Count-1,016 excluding title. Sergeant Preston did not feel optimistic. He fought Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart all the way to Gettysburg last year, boxed him in, and smashed him up. Then, General Meade transferred his veteran cavalry regiment to Sherman’s Army of Tennessee in the Atlanta campaign. Now, he struggled out here with General Joe Wheeler looking for him. Trouble started when he rode out of Atlanta on 15 November 1864 with the city in flames and led by a half-crazed general lig...
Weekly Contest #140
THE RED POND IN THE WOODS. 1,034 words I remember the Red Pond. It haunts my sleep these past twenty-five years. Fellow veterans on the Chicago Fire Department want to go back. They still talk about the battle and now our GAR Lodge is organizing a train trip. Civilization must have caught up, for no train ran to Pittsburg Landing in the long ago. I know the war is still part of our lives. We do favors for one another. We try to look out for each other at a bad fire. The war is like an over bearing parent, pointing us in this direction and...
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