The Metropolis - 9781544711201

Perhaps you have heard your father speak of me? asked the Major, eagerly; and Montague answered, "A thousand times." He was tempted to add that the vision that rose before him was of a stout gentleman hanging in a grape-vine, while a whole battery of artillery made him their target. Perhaps it was irreverent, but that was what Montague had always thought of, ever since he had first laughed over the tale his father told. It had happened one January afternoon in the Wilderness, during the terrible battle of Chancellorsville, when Montague's father had been a rising young staff-officer, and it had fallen to his lot to carry to Major Thorne what was surely the most terrifying order that ever a cavalry officer received. It was in the crisis of the conflict, when the Army of the Potomac was reeling before the onslaught of Stonewall Jackson's columns. There was no one to stop them-and yet they must be stopped, for the whole right wing of the army was going. So that cavalry regiment had charged full tilt through the thickets, and into a solid wall of infantry and artillery.

Author: Upton Sinclair

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 26, 2017

Number of Pages: 246 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1544711204

ISBN-13: 9781544711201