Joseph S. Malone
Published: 2017-07-11
Total Pages: 322
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Excerpt from Sons of Vengeance: A Tale of the Cumberland Highlanders Putting the child down, Mrs. Finley ran up the hill side towards the cabin. She put her hands above her eyes to shade them, and gazing down the path into the hollow which led out to the big road, she saw eight or ten men moving up the hill, bearing what seemed to be a human body. Intuitively she knew it was her husband or her eldest son - the latter had been away for some days - who was being brought home to her. She did not scream after the way of most women, but stood silent and shivering with suppressed feeling, then raising her eyes, sad and dull by suffering, she made what speed she could down the steep, rocky slope, to meet the men who were bearing the dead form. A single glance told her the truth; it was Pete. They had not wiped away the blood from the mouth, from which it had flowed when the fatal ball from the Winchester rifle had ploughed its cruel way through his lungs. Her first act was to wipe away this blood, put a hand upon his forehead, and say with a sob, Oh, Pete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.