Decoration Day in Deep Valley

“When Colonel Coville told us to charge,” he said, “nobody ran out on that field any faster than Aaron Sibley.”

“You ran fast enough to get a bullet through your arm.”

“Only winged, only winged,” he answered impatiently. “It might have been death for any one of us.”

It was for a good many of them, Emily remembered. She had heard her grandfather say many times that only forty-seven had come back out of two hundred and sixty-two who had made the gallant charge.

—from Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace.

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Comments

1. 

   Emily says:

   Oh… I love Emily of Deep Valley!!

   Lauren
   emilyofdeepvalley.blogspot.com 🙂

   On June 2, 2011 at 5:32 pm