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“… How about you Johnny, what’ve you been up to?”
“Reading.”
“Here?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“We can Gus.”
“We?”
“If you want to.”
“Why?”
“Why listen to crows?”
“True. What did you read?”
“Your book.”
“I don’t have a book Johnny.”
“The one on the 99th.”
“That’s not my book, just a book about the regiment I was in.”
“You did the things they did.”
“Until 11 August.”
“The 99th was a solid unit.”
“Thanks.”
“I mean the men in it.”
“We tried.”
“Esprit de corps.”
“Willing.”
“I think Napoleon would have thought so.”
“The Frenchy?”
“Yes.”
“Seeing all we saw Reb, it motivated us.”
“Your book describes such things.”
“Officers?”
“Everyone Gus.”
“Company C … the names?”
“All there.”
“Let’s step Johnny, to the bivouac site.”
“Let’s.”
Next Up: Part 5 on 30 June of the summer series Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: In-Between Time.
Posted by Bryan W. Brickner