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men in the crowd. At 6 ′3″ I was very conscious of others who shared my unusual height.
many as four years, maybe he was as young as seventeen. There were cannon-fodder fourteen-
caused me to take a closer look.
“My God, you’re the soldier who saved my life yesterday!” I said. “I never had a chance to
thank you. What’s your name?”
with sudden recognition. “I couldn’t let you die. There’s only a few of us beanstalks in this
war.”
“That’s because most of them forgot to stoop when union bullets were flying around,” I said.
“Well, this time I’m thankful to be tall. You were really heroic.”
“Sorry I didn’t recall your face at first.”
The ensuing silence gave me a chance to observe him more carefully. Crisp white laugh lines
preceded his long limbs and his pants legs ended inches above his ankles.
“My rank is due to a shortage of men, and I’m still pretty green at it. This last week’s fighting
was my first as sergeant. Where’s home for you?” I asked.
He said he’d grown up in Charlottesville and had just reached legal age for enlistment17 two
months earlier. On the morning of his seventeenth birthday, he had joined his brother’s
company. His distraught mother had been furious that the age for enlistment had been lowered
that he was only one day past sixteen, was too tender to kill men, and was too inexperienced
“If my mother hadn’t been so dead set against it, I would’ve lied about my age and been on
the battlefield a year earlier,” he added. “Then I could have joined you fellows at Gettysburg and
First and Second Manassas. But these past few weeks might make up for it.”
the Gettysburg landscape after three hot, sultry July days the year before. After the third
of life in the Confederate bodies sprawled27 across boulders28 and twisted in the grass. Zeke tugged29
wasn’t the only one whose gut heaved up. Beards, Blue, and I suffered the same in the midst of
noses. John Bibb should thank his lucky stars he wasn’t there.
log. The fellow reached into his pocket for a plug of tobacco, although he looked too young to
treasure into his mouth, then slowly toppled to the side with eyes rolled back in his head. Some
bodies on the field in front of the earthworks had taken bullets from both sides for the entire
battle. They were now only glistening43 sponge-like globs with what must have been thousands of
Mockingbirds earlier spooked by battle’s roar warbled again from the split pine and oak
branches overhead as though nothing had happened that day.
As I considered our situation, surrender was nothing to be ashamed of. The peculiarity47 was in
John Bibb had it right; he had been to see the largest and fiercest of the elephants, and both of
“You might have seen my brother somewhere. He was an officer in a student volunteer unit
from Virginia Military Institute that fought in the Valley Campaign.”
“No, I never encountered him. I’m sorry to hear of your loss. What happened?”
family didn’t get word until he was already at an army hospital in Richmond. His father rode
weeks, soaking the fetid injury and softly beseeching54 French not to leave just yet.
“Your family must have taken it hard.”
“I don’t think they’ll ever recover. He was the best of us five children. My father wanted
French to follow him into the dry goods business, but he would have made a first-rate university
professor or doctor. So that’s why my mother was dead set against me going off to fight.”
these lines:
His noble heart is now at rest;
The young, the beautiful, the brave,
We will not mourn his early grave.
Then let him rest, till that glad sound Full on his
raptur’d ear is pour’d,
“Come forth, ye blessed of the Lord.”
It could have been for any fallen soldier, but the words gave him comfort. Sharing it with me
was an invitation to friendship. His other brother, Albert Pendleton, had followed French into
on sick furlough, because he couldn’t run without becoming breathless. It had fallen to John
I was moved by his friendliness59 and, sadly, his resemblance to my former, more innocent
self. It made me want to protect him from what we’d come to know. And now that he’d saved
effort to keep him safe. When we halted for the night, I invited him to join Beards, Jim Blue, and
the others where we chose to lie down. They took to him as quickly as I had. “You’re one of us,
now, Bibb,” Tayloe said. “You’re a bona fide member of Company D.”
“Welcome to the best damned company in the Confederate army,” Zeke added. “What’s left
of it, anyhow. We need a new recruit.”
“Thanks. My old company has disappeared. I’m grateful to be adopted,” he said.
thoughts as we lay on the damp branches and brambles in the woods of Stafford County. Sounds
of combat faded with distance, and we fell into deep unconsciousness, worn out after five nights
of fighting, marching, digging, and more fighting.
from the pockets of a fallen comrade, discarding the bloody64 bits to eat the rest. Beards saw it too
and reminded me, “I hope I’ll never be that desperate. But I wouldn’t mind having more of that
come.”
On the second day’s march, we traded stories about home—anything that would draw Bibb
nurtured69 the hog66 from a piglet and slaughtered70 it fat in the fall. Now, because we had no food to
eat, I thought talking about getting some might raise spirits. “Beards, tell Bibb what happens at
from. He’s probably never seen a real live hog,” I said. Bibb took a playful swipe at my cap,
knocking it to the ground.
“You can do as good a job as I can, but I’ll tell him how we all go to your Pa’s place once the
weather gets a little edge on it—just as the leaves begin to turn.” Beards went into great detail,
telling Bibb how families bring their fattest pig in a wagon—the pig all the time thinking he’s on
a fine ride to see the neighbors—and how they line the creatures up together and shoot them
between the eyes at the same time, or they’ll scream and holler when they see what’s happened
how the dogs go crazy licking at the scarlet75 clots76 on the ground. Every single last part of the pig
ribs79, chops, bacon pieces. They save the head, feet, snout, ears, and brains for good eating, too.
Then he got to the best part, telling how the day ends in a feast with sausage made by shoving
spices and herbs. Fried, crunchy chitterlings and thick chops topped with apples fried with
cinnamon are piled on plates. Ma’s buttermilk biscuits are followed by plump fruit pies. When
he finished, we all fell silent. This was the most we’d heard from Beards in weeks. His account
In an effort to distract us, and perhaps to put us in our place for our teasing, Bibb talked about
his life. Charlottesville was Mr. Jefferson’s city, Bibb said, and even though Jefferson had
passed away thirty-nine years earlier, his presence was everywhere. John Bibb’s great uncle had
served as Jefferson’s personal secretary up on the big hill at Monticello after the president
returned from Washington.
Bibb related what might have been considered a ghost story. His uncle often rode with
Jefferson through the countryside of Albemarle County, and one day they came upon a large,
man- made, and measured it top to bottom and around with his father’s old surveying
the sun or the stars.
making some sort of ritual walk around the hillock. The figures might be clothed as white men,
laid their necklaces at the eastern and western sides. Then they retreated without being any wiser
ordered two slaves to dig into it and bring back whatever they found. He created a “curiosity
entry hall at Monticello so that the hundreds of uninvited public, who arrived daily to peer at his
home, might study the curious objects. Bibb said his uncle swore that ever after, slaves told of
voices chanting in an unknown tongue late at night in that room. When they pushed back the
officer, a great uncle who assisted Mr. Jefferson, and his idea of a good story being one about
more directly engaged in survival. The hog-butchering story demonstrated what the other boys
and I had in common.
unloaded wooden crates102 of hard crackers103. A melee104 of pushing, shoving, punching, and cursing
would follow. Using my recently gained authority as sergeant—and with help from Beards and
Jim Blue—we organized lines around the boxes so everyone had a fair chance. I also grabbed a
handful for Bibb, who wasn’t yet accustomed to the “every man for himself” culture we lived
threatening wounds and laid out in wagons, willed ourselves forward under the barking
commands of our captors.
We were two days from the battlefield. One more day lay between Aquia Harbor and
Washington. From there we’d go by train to Baltimore and by steamboat again to the union
prison, Fort Delaware. The guards marching alongside had told us that much. I plodded along in
the hobbling mob next to John Bibb. This time he spoke106 about plans for the future. The efforts of
simply living day to day hadn’t yet swamped his thoughts of home and events there.
his store someday. But I’m not sure I want that tame life. With French gone, it’s too quiet at
home for me.”
“What would you do instead?”
“Go west. Reports about gold in California make me long for adventure. I had thought I
course, there isn’t much chance of that now.”
given. He pushed the image toward me. “Another thing I might do is marry. This is Margaret
“She’s a fine-looking girl; I can see why you’d be sweet on her.”
“But then you’ll never taste the freedom of the West.”
Bibb looked down and shook his head. “When I’m with Margaret Ellen, I think of nothing
“I know about the power of women,” I said. “There was this girl named Lizzie . . .” and then
I stopped.
He looked off into the distance, not listening. “When this war is over, there’ll be plenty of
time to sort it all out, I guess.”
heard stories of deadly disease, heartless officers, and no food. At that time, fewer men died in
prison than on the field, and the stay was fairly brief. And if we were concerned about
mistreatment from prison guards, we’d already seen enough from our own Confederate officers.
Poor Zeke had plenty to say about that.
Several months earlier, he was on a two- day leave to visit Richmond, when our army
unexpectedly dismantled119 its tents and set out from Louisa County to Orange County on the heels
of some Yankees. The evening he was due, Beards walked up, powerfully disturbed. “Where’s
Zeke? Is he here yet?”
“Haven’t seen him,” I replied.
“Do you think he’ll figure out where we’ve gone?”
wheat straw I’d picked up.
“Roll is being called right now, and anyone not here will have hell to pay later,” Beards said.
He strode off, hoping to find Zeke chatting with fellows down the row of tents.
By the time he caught up with the company, Zeke was too late for roll call. At dawn, we
spied two soldiers yanking him along by rope twisted around his wrists as he peppered them
nothing wrong!” They continued at a determined122 clip, Zeke’s canvas-clothed buttocks bouncing
along over rocks and branches.
back, too.”
I could sway them with rank. I drew myself to full height and said in an authoritative126 tone, “I’m
this man’s sergeant. I’m the one to deal with him. Release him immediately.”
“Our orders are from the commanding officer. That’s not you, right? You got no say here. Get
back to your camp. This is none of your business, but it will be if you come any closer.” That
cedars129. It sheltered a quantity of fellows in strange postures130 on the forest floor. Their wrists were
tied either end and then behind their heads.
was beside himself with fury. “There’ll be desertions tonight; bet good money on it. Fellows
would rather risk execution than go through that humiliation136 again.” He also swore the
Three long years we’d endured—what could a few more months mean? But an unforeseen
standoff between Jeff Davis and Abe Lincoln changed all that shortly after our Fort Delaware
arrival. Those of us who managed to survive would remain for more than a year—months after
Lee surrendered.
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n.伦理学;伦理观,道德标准 | |
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adj.愤愤不平的,受委屈的;悲痛的;(在合法权利方面)受侵害的v.令委屈,令苦恼,侵害( aggrieve的过去式);令委屈,令苦恼,侵害( aggrieve的过去式和过去分词) | |
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