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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Days Between

2/1/2019

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank SOOW: Days Between

Part VI of XIII

“… The light’s moved Johnny.”
“Yet we’re out of season Gus.”
“This isn’t February in Maryland.”
“Correct.”
“Got comrades here.”
“Both kinds too.”
“Yanks and Rebs you mean.”
“Right.”
“We saw some names before.”
“And now some bodies.”
“Reb, it seems the music is coming from the church.”
“It does.”
“‘A hopeful candle lingers’ … ”
“… ‘In the land of lullabies.’”
“How shall we proceed?”
“Time to leave Somewhere I suppose.”
“To catch-up with the seasons?”
“That and ourselves.”
“Ourselves?”
“We the People Yank.”
“We the People ready Reb?”
“Ready or not …”
“Right.”
“Berryville?”
“How about Morgan in Winchester first?”
“Nice Gus.”
“And let’s talk about Sumter there.”
“Let’s …”

Next Up: 8 February 2019 and part VII of the winter series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank On Our Way: Keep Off Cannon!

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Tock

1/25/2019

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank SOOW: Tock

Part V of XIII

“… How’s this?”
“Better.”
“That’s the East Woods Gus.”
“The preacher Reb, Comrade Lucas.”
“Yeah.”
“He was young.”
“Born in 1840.”
“And from Illinois.”
“Boone County.”
“Lucas was in my company, Company C.”
“An officer, lieutenant.”
“Then appointed Regimental Chaplain.”
“Right.”
“And who was Sumter?”
“From the fort?”
“Yeah.”
“South Carolinian.”
“Revolutionary?”
“Comrade of Morgan’s.”
“Does the light seem different Reb?”
“It does.”
“Did you hear the Tock?”
“No … though we didn’t hear the Tick either.”
“We just noticed it.”
“Right.”
“How to check?”
“Let’s go back to the cannon and see.”
“Let’s …”

Next Up: 1 February 2019 and part VI of the winter series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Days Between.

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Touching Elbows

1/11/2019

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank SOOW: Touching Elbows

Part III of XIII

“… You’d know the type Gus.”
“Says Captain Downs was in the 4th NY Infantry.”
“A New York volunteer regiment.”
“I understand that.”
“Downs was leading a company in the regiment on 17 September.”
“Tough job Johnny.”
“An elected one.”
“That’s mostly how volunteer officers were chosen.”
“Elected by the soldiers.”
“When did Downs join?”
“After Fort Sumter.”
“First-to-fight kind of guy.”
“Started as a lieutenant.”
“Downs was promoted.”
“He was.”
“What happened here Reb?”
“The 4th NY was at the Sunken Road.”
“Soon to be Bloody Lane.”
“The 4th was in the first assault.”
“The first assault got cut down.”
“True.”
“An infantry officer like Downs would’ve been keeping his soldiers in-line, in formation.”
“Touching elbows.”
“What about Chapman Reb?”
“Similar to Downs.”
“A 4th New Yorker.”
“Volunteered after Fort Sumter.”
“Promoted?”
“From sergeant.”
“Johnny, …”

Next Up: 18 January 2019 and part IV of the winter series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Comrades.

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Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: Seeing Things

7/4/2018

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Seeing Things

8 of 13

“… What didn’t you see before Reb?”
“Haven’t you wondered why you’re here Gus?”
“Here Somewhere or with you in general?”
“Same thing.”
“Yes, I’ve wondered.”
“I have too.”
“What are you seeing now Johnny?”
“You Kotka.”
“Come on.”
“See how it looks like the cannon is firing on the eagle.”
“Yes.”
“A group, a cabal, tried to kill our Republic.”
“Cabals collude Johnny.”
“Collusion became treason.”
“Go on.”
“Our war, the US Civil War, didn’t start in 1861 Gus.”
“Of course it did Reb, when you all fired on the federals in Fort Sumter.”
“Try 4 July 1850.”
“I don’t see it Reb.”
“President Taylor Gus.”
“He died of cholera.”
“They say.”
“You saying something else Johnny?”
“He was killed.”
“Assassinated?”
“Others have said so.”
“Need to see some evidence Johnny.”
“I know the how Yank, but there’s more to say about you and your Valkyrie first.”
“When is it Kyd time?”
“Next.”
“What’s this how you speak of Johnny?”
“How the assassins killed President Taylor.”
“Say more.”
“You and the Valkyrie first.”
“Okay, though …”

Next Up: Part 9 on 18 July of the summer series Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: More to Say.

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Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Somewhere On Our Way: Days Between

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