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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-1 There was little snobbery in the Troop. Bruce 2024-10-5 033 Bruce 2024-10-5 08:00
Chapter-1 Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies. Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Able Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant. Bruce 2024-10-5 030 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Ashley Wilkes was elected captain, because he was the best rider in the County and because his cool head was counted on to keep some semblance of order. Bruce 2024-10-5 030 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Everyone liked the four Tarleton boys and the three Fontaines, but regretfully refused to elect them, because the Tarletons got lickered up too quickly and liked to skylark, and the Fontaines had such quick, murderous tempers. Bruce 2024-10-5 032 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any military experience except a few veterans of the Mexican and Seminole wars and, besides, the Troop would have scorned a veteran as a leader if they had not personally Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Until matters were settled, everyone referred to the organization as the Troop and, despite the high-sounding name finally adopted, they were known to the end of their usefulness simply as The Troop. Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Clayton Wild Cats, Fire Eaters, North Georgia Hussars, Zouaves, The Inland Rifles (although the Troop was to be armed with pistols, sabers and bowie knives, and not with rifles), The Clayton Grays, The Blood and Thunderers, The Rough and Readys, Bruce 2024-10-5 033 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Everyone had his own idea on that subject and was loath to relinquish it, just as everyone had ideas about the color and cut of the uniforms. Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 The outfit was as yet unnamed, though not for want of suggestions. Bruce 2024-10-5 037 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57
Chapter-1 The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war. Bruce 2024-10-5 039 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57
Chapter-1 The Troop knows what it's doing. Bruce 2024-10-5 041 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57
Chapter-1 He's a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it's not for any darky to talk impudent about him. Bruce 2024-10-5 040 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57
Chapter-1 He ain't trash! Do you mean to compare him with real white trash like the Slatterys? Able just ain't rich. Bruce 2024-10-5 038 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:56
Chapter-1 There ain't a better man in this County, or why else did the Troop elect him lieutenant? Bruce 2024-10-5 032 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:56
Chapter-1 Sure he's poor, but he ain't trash; and I'm damned if I'll have any man, darky or white, throwing off on him. Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:56
Chapter-1 Don't you call Abel Wynder 'po' white. Bruce 2024-10-5 030 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:55
I'm going to beat your hide off for that, cried Stuart fiercely. Bruce 2024-10-5 030 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:55
His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few. Bruce 2024-10-5 033 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:55
There was frank contempt in Jeems' voice. Bruce 2024-10-5 031 Bruce 2024-10-5 07:55
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