Аннотация
Harry Turtledove
How Few Remain
Now twenty years have passed away,
Since I here bid farewell
To woods, and fields, and scenes of play
And school-mates loved so well.
Where many were, now few remain
Of old familiar things!
But seeing these to mind again
The lost and absent brings.
The friends I left that parting day How changed, as time has sped!
Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
And half of all are dead.
- Abraham Lincoln,"My Childhood Home I See Again"
Prelude
1862
September
Outside Frederick, Maryland
T he Army of Northern Virginia was breaking camp. The lean, ragged soldiers, their gray uniforms and especially their shoes much the worse for wear, began the next long tramp, this one north and west toward Hagerstown. They were profoundly -and profanely-glad to be getting away from Frederick.
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