BCoF...
I am getting closer to finishing "THE BOOK." Yahoo! Anyway, there were a few incidents that made me take pause. On the night during the Stones' Bridge Battle (pg. 580) when both sides were hunkering down for the night, separated by only a few hundred yards, they started to sing. First it was to show their loyalty to their respective sides by singing their hometown songs. Each side singing with pride, one song after the other. When one band started playing "Home Sweet Home," the sentiment was too strong and the Union and the Confederates became men who missed their families and homes, together they raised their voices and sang together.
On page 636 Union troops raise the stars and strips on the courthouse in Vicksburg. The touching part was how the Union troops gave respect to the rebels and then shared their rations with them. If that wasn't enough...they broke into businesses that were known to have held food at extremely high prices. The Union men gave the starving Vicksburg civilians food that they desperately needed.
AND...I cried when Stonewall Jackson died. He was a man that had true grit and mettle that overflowed!
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I don't know if my earlier comment was posted or not. Was anyone else surprised about the amount of music that was mentioned in the K A book? I know of the power of music- it just surprised me to know that in such desperate times, music was so much a part of the action.
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