I N THE KITCHEN THIS MORNING I SAW THE WOMAN REGISTER THE Train’s whistle coming from
miles away, tilting1 her head as she swirled2 suds on the breakfast dishes. Ellen’s finest, the ones
with delicate sprigs of corn flowers around the scalloped edges. My wife would be so grieved to
see that her porcelain3 plates are now chipped from careless use. Christmas goose and sweet
potatoes, Cara’s currant and rum wedding cake, and countless4 birthday feasts were served up on
that china. As the settings glistened5 on the linen6 cloth, Pa’s face glowed with pride that his wife
and girls had once again created such a bounty7 from his labor8. Now look at those plates. But
dwelling9 on them will only deepen my increasing misery10.
The long wail11 of the train reminds me of the frenzy12 of excitement when construction on the new
railroad line was finished a few years before the war, and Staunton was finally connected to the
rest of the world. Until the day I boarded the train with Imboden’s militia13 boys, I’d never ridden
one of the new steam horses. It was an auspicious14 start for an adventure.
Some older fellows, summoned so quickly there was no time to change, sported dress suits.
Sam had arrived at the Staunton rail station with a formal top hat perched at an angle on his
head, capping off his bandy-legged swagger. His slingshot, carved from a knotty15 hickory branch,
protruded16 from one pants pocket, and the sack of stones he’d collected from Tinkling17 Creek18
along the Bethel road, bulged19 the other. Many fellows bristled20 with pistols strapped21 to their
thighs22 or stuck in their pants’ waistbands. Sheathed23 hunting knives dangled24 from belts. I toted
one of Pa’s hunting rifles.
The train chugged north through the Valley. The boys boarding at Orange were convinced we
were headed to the nation’s capital, but no one could imagine what we’d do there. At the
Culpeper stop, a fellow who sat behind me swore we were off to Alexandria. He’d heard rumors25
about tearing up the docks and disrupting shipping26. Sam, Tayloe, and I unlatched and pushed up
the windows. Leaning out, we hollered at every living thing—men, women, children, cows,
horses, pigs, chickens—as the train plowed27 through the countryside. For most of us, the ride was
the greatest novelty ever. To celebrate, boys around us broke out flasks28 of liquor, fueling
boisterous29 boasts and cussing as the sun went down. Ma’s voice was still too recent in my ears
for me to be tempted30 to share in the boozing, but Sam gleefully guzzled31 the proffered32 spirits.
We rumbled33 along by rail all night, finally reaching Strasburg in the early gray light. A
subdued34 crowd, we stumbled out of the cars, rubbing our eyes and hoisting35 haversacks for a
twenty-mile walk toward a Winchester train. We hadn’t gone far when I heard a commotion36 in
the crooked37 line ahead.
“Something’s going on,” Sam said, and sprinted38 ahead to get wind of it. He hooted39 like a
banshee and tossed his hat in the air.
“It’s happened! We’ve seceded40! The vote was 85 to 56 in favor!” he shouted. A hot buzz of
voices swirled around us. Chest heaving, Sam again fell into step next to me. Then his face
suddenly became grave. The ham bone I’d been gnawing41 fell to the ground. The lines
straightened up, and each boy was, for the first time, a real soldier.
“Sam,” I said in a low voice, “Did you ever believe this day would come? Now that it’s real,
there’s no turning back.” He didn’t answer. He just strode forward with a pensive42 air.
An older man overheard. “Don’t be so glum43, boys. Have y’all forgotten? We’re a bunch of
farmers and hunters. We know how to use a gun.” He paused to shift a chunk44 of tobacco to the
other cheek. “Those citified Northerners who ain’t never shot nothin’ will scurry45 back home
with their tails between their legs. Just like coon dogs who failed to git the coon.” He spat46 to the
roadside and bit off another plug. “We’ll be back in the fields before summer harvest.”
“I’m not so sure about that,” Sam said. But the fellow already had wandered off.
By the time we reached Winchester, heel blisters47 had risen and popped, and my shoulders
throbbed48 from the weight of the haversack. Exhaustion49 had dampened our enthusiasm. It was
then that we heard we were bound for Harpers Ferry, famous as home of the country’s largest
gun-manufacturing plant and arsenal50, the very place John Brown had failed to seize two years
earlier. Our goal was the same—to seize the arsenal and the weapons. But for the possible
Confederacy this time, not a slave revolt. An anxious undercurrent coursed through the car.
“Look what happened to John Brown,” Sam said. “The Feds strung him up for treason and
ripped his gang’s guts51 out. I heard they cut off one fellow’s ears, shot and hanged some others,
and sliced off their arms and legs afterward52. Some weren’t even given a decent burial.” I felt the
blood rush from my face and saw others turn pale.
“That scum Imboden tricked us,” Sam growled53. This was a side of Sam I’d never seen, a Sam
who was less sure he would come out ahead in any situation. I was shaken and turned away lest
he sense it.
Tayloe looked like he’d seen a ghost. “What if we fail too? Why would they treat us any
different than they treated Brown and his gang?” The air seemed to thicken in our car and boys’
shoulders slumped54.
This was the first time I’d faced the possible consequences of what we were doing. To buoy55
myself, I reminded them that Brown had only seventeen men; we had many more.
Night fell. Fellows propped56 their backs against the freight car walls or curled up on the floor
with their heads on knapsacks, unconscious until morning light pierced the cracks. Sam dozed57
within hollering distance while, too stirred up to close my eyes, I leaned against the wooden wall
all night and saw the industrial town as it came into view at dawn. Carved out of limestone58
cliffs, there was scarce room between rock and river for any buildings. An ominous59 curtain of
greasy60 black smoke stretched along the riverbank and hovered61 over rooftops. Boys began to stir.
“What’s that stink62?”
“I dunno,” one fellow said. “Smells like a blacksmith forge to me.” He squinted63 his eyes and
sniffed64 the air.
The train brakes screeched65 to a stop on the trestles leading across the narrowest section of the
Shenandoah River. The engineer waited for the signal to move forward. In the early morning
light, I caught sight below of a man squatting66 at the bridge’s stone base. His movements were
jerky; he seemed uneasy. Twenty small wooden kegs lay about as he tinkered with something.
Then he charged up the hill like his tail was on fire. Without a word, Sam thrust aside his
haversack, cast off his hat, and dove through the open doors. He almost flew down the hillside.
“Well, there goes our first deserter. Don’t take much to scare that fellow,” the boy who stood
next to me said.
We crowded the open rail car door, boys craning their necks to get a view. On the riverbank,
Sam stomped67 on flames inching along a rope that trailed toward the kegs.
“Dynamite! That son-of-a-bitch tried to blow up the train and kill us!”
The other fellows had finally realized why Sam had leapt from the car. Ashen-faced and fists
pounding, he raced uphill, leaping over rocks and clumps68 of wire grass to reach the train just as
it began to roll. He ran alongside, picking up speed with the freight cars. Gasping69 for air, he
hollered my name, then Tayloe’s. “Come on,” I yelled. “We’ll pull you in.” He propelled
himself halfway70 into the car opening, legs flailing71 over the tracks. Tayloe and I gripped his arms
and the back of his jacket and tugged72 him the rest of the way.
I whacked73 his shoulder, “You’re a war hero already.”
“Boy, I sure couldn’t have acted so fast,” a fellow standing74 nearby said. I flushed with pride
that Sam was my friend.
He bent75 half over, hands on knees, gasping for breath. His hair tumbled over his sweaty face.
“How did someone know that soldiers were headed to the Ferry?” he finally sputtered76.
“Oh no. If the Feds got word, they might have a full army there by now,” the fellow swaying
next to Sam said. His eyes were huge.
“I knew it. I knew this was a bad idea,” said Tayloe. He grabbed for the pistol he had stuck in
his belt and clutched it in a shaking hand.
Safely across the bridge and into the station, we straggled off. I paused for a moment, feeling
newly alive now that death had passed us by. But sounds of four hundred confused and milling
boys, plus a nostril-searing odor of hot iron, quickly dispelled77 my sense of awe78.
I was scared. Tayloe kept running his tongue across his lips, a sign he was scared too. I think
the smell threw everyone off, including the militia commanders. This wasn’t what we’d
expected, even though I’d caught a glimpse of smoke from the train.
“Prepare to march,” hollered the militia leaders, and the three of us fell into a scraggly line
behind some Staunton boys. We nervously79 opened and closed our powder canisters and jiggled
minié balls as we waited, praying our weeks of practice at home would be enough. Boys from
Culpeper were an exception. They had no weapons. Instead, they scouted80 the train yard for
sticks and then stuffed stones from between the rails in their pockets. Nobody, not even the so-
called officers, appeared to know what was called for next. On command, our entire band of four
hundred hesitantly moved out into Potomac Street and saw something that made my jaw81 drop.
Weapons clattered82 to the ground as boys gaped83 in stunned84 shock.
The armory85 was a smoldering86 mess of bricks and mortar87, a few tottering88 pieces of wall,
molten lumps of metal, and twisted girders. Small flames still licked at the building shell. There
were no Feds.
All order collapsed89, and despite the militia leaders’ protests, Tayloe, Sam, and I, along with
most of the other boys, wandered off to discover the cause. And if truth be known, to explore the
town.
Beyond the armory debris90 on Potomac Street, we saw another astonishing sight.
Townspeople strained at wheelbarrows piled with tools, clothes, hams, fowl91, and children. It was
a noisy procession with parents urging older children to hurry and neighbors shouting to one
another. Cruel jeers92 of “Good riddance, Lincolnites” and “Take this, you unionists” followed
them as pro-secession youngsters hurled93 eggs and chunks94 of clay at their backs. Infants bawled95
and struggled in their parents’ hold, and toddlers swung onto their mothers’ skirts as the throng96
surged forward, ignoring the insults and blows in their haste to depart.
Sam and Tayloe were impatient to explore, so I let them go ahead of me. I wanted answers
for why the armory had burned. I caught the eye of a sallow-faced man leaning against a
doorjamb watching the scene as he rolled a cigar. He poured a little more tobacco from a leather
pouch97 onto the brown paper and then licked the edge. After placing the unlit cigar in his mouth,
he seemed willing to talk.
“Why isn’t a federal army here? Did another rebel group beat us to the Ferry?” I asked. My
boots crunched98 glass underfoot. Not a window remained intact for several blocks near the
factory ruins, and building facades99 were marked with swaths of soot100.
The man sucked on his stogie, hitched101 up his canvas pants, and replied, “Another rebel
group? So that’s who you are. I knew I hadn’t seen your face before.” He looked as though he
was debating how much to tell me. Finally, he said, “Hell, no. The durn fool Federals done this
to themselves. A fellow returned to the Ferry yesterday evening from the Virginia Convention
and snitched to the armory guards that the state had seceded. That you boys were on your way
for weapons.”
“A snitch? I can’t believe it. Of all the danged luck!”
“Yep,” he said. “Anyway, as of last winter, the arsenal commander had only a dozen guards
on hand. The poor fellow begged higher ups for more, but none were sent. Now he and his men
have fled before y’all could get here.”
“Can you tell me how it happened?”
“It was in the midst of a big uproar102. You never saw folks so heated up when the news of
secession spread. Why, even my neighbor and I threw punches at one another during a brawl103 in
our local tavern104. I never suspected he’d be a union sympathizer. You can’t tell about folks
sometimes,” he said. “The fellow was getting the better of me, had my shoulders pinned to the
floor, until we both heard an explosion so strong that glasses behind the bar crashed to the
ground. That brought us and the other brawlers to our senses, and we ran outside to see what had
happened. Word spread fast that the federal arsenal commander had blown the armory to
kingdom come to keep the weapons out of your hands. And the dangest thing was that he used
explosives left over from when John Brown brought them to the Ferry to blow up the arsenal.
How about that!”
We were both silent for a moment, taking in the strangeness of it all. Then I remembered all
those pitiful folks at the end of Potomac Street.
“Why are all of these people leaving town? Who are they?” I asked.
“Foreigners,” he said and then spat into the street. “Damned European immigrants come
down from the North to work in the munitions105 plant. Nothing but pariahs106 now that we’ve
seceded.”
Just at that moment, I saw Tayloe and Sam stepping gingerly through the debris at the end of
the street. I thanked the man and hurried off in their direction to find lodgings107.
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| v.用文火焖烧，熏烧，慢燃( smolder的现在分词 ) | |
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| v.猛投，用力掷( hurl的过去式和过去分词 )；大声叫骂 | |
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facades
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| （免费）搭乘他人之车( hitch的过去式和过去分词 )； 搭便车； 攀上； 跃上 | |
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| n.大声争吵，喧嚷；v.吵架，对骂 | |
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