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The Raid of the Guerilla, and Other Stories

By Mary Noailles Murfree

2019-02-28 18:18:01

Judgment day was coming to Tanglefoot Cove—somewhat in advance of the expectation of the rest of the world. Immediate doom impended. A certain noted guerilla, commanding a reckless troop, had declared a stern intention of raiding this secluded nook ... Read more
Judgment day was coming to Tanglefoot Cove—somewhat in advance of the expectation of the rest of the world. Immediate doom impended. A certain noted guerilla, commanding a reckless troop, had declared a stern intention of raiding this secluded nook among the Great Smoky Mountains, and its denizens could but tremble at the menace. Few and feeble folk were they. The volunteering spirit rife in the early days of the Civil War had wrought the first depletion in the number. Then came, as time wore on, the rigors of the conscription, with an extension of the limits of age from the very young to the verge of the venerable, thus robbing, as was said, both the cradle and the grave. Now only the ancient weaklings and the frail callow remained of the male population among the women and girls, who seemed mere supernumeraries in the scheme of creation, rated by the fitness to bear arms. Less

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File size664.732 KB
Print pages356
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-09-08
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1313027212
Born in near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, The United States January 24, 1850 Died: July 31, 1922 Genre: Literature & Fiction AKA Charles Egbert Craddock Mary Noailles Murfree is in the English lan...

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