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Confederate General Jubal Early and most of his staff spent Sunday evening near Gaithersburg, Maryland, a few miles north of Rockville, at the home of a very angry slave owner and Union sympathizer named John DeSellum. Mr. DeSellum was particularly unhappy because passing Rebels had pretty well cleaned him out of food and fodder before someone on the General's staff decided that his home would be a good place to locate the invading army's headquarters for the night.

The few dark hours of that July evening were hot and still, except for insects large and small, and sleep came hard even for bone-tired men. Jubal Early was up before dawn, riding forward to see that the camps were stirring, his men breakfasting on whatever they had been able to find and then moving out toward the Federal capital. All of Mr. DeSellum's chickens and ducks had disappeared as well as their eggs. His smokehouse was empty.

Washington lay, sweltering and still, only three or four hours of hard marching away. Never in all the four bloody years of the terrible war had a Confederate army come so close to the Union nerve center, to the Congress, to the Treasury, and to Abraham Lincoln. Robert Lee had not been able to do it. Thomas Jonathan Jackson, whose old brigade marched in his army, had not done it. Stuart's flamboyant horsemen had come this close, but that was just a lark, perhaps a mistake as it turned out. Now it was Early's turn. Dust, diarrhea and desertion be damned. He might not capture the city, but he was going to give Lincoln, Halleck and Grant the scare of their lives.

And if he could take Washington without risking his whole force, he would do it. If he could get them back out safely, back to the river fords, he would do it! He spurred his tired horse and found a new cigar in his pocket.

When Jubal Early reached Rockville that Monday to confer with his lieutenants, it was mid-morning. Both he and his bloodied corps were still recovering from the Saturday fight against Lew Wallace's men on the Monocacy. He sat on his dusty horse at the side of the road and watched his worn men shamble past in route step.

Seth Williams, who had been brought along in case his testimony was needed, saw the same thing General Early did. Dead tired men, their faces chalky under their farmer's tan, sunk-eyed, slack-jawed, lean-muscled, played out. They were a loose-jointed, scarecrow crew. Seth was surprised they were so ordinary looking, so ragged and worn. He had seen lots of soldiers, but none like these. They swung one leg after the other almost like machines. They bent their backs, and they carried their rifles and packs every which way, frypans dangling at their waists.

Their enemy was the sun, and their merciless foe grew stronger every hour. No quarter offered.

As Seth watched and listened from a patch of shade, cavalrymen, even General McCausland himself as Wainder pointed out, rode up and reported that there was nothing between them and the capital except for a few, scattered units, mostly mounted and lightly armed. The city's forts, they assured Early, were manned by untried militia, paroled invalids from city hospitals, and a ragtag collection of clerks from various government offices. Seth watched Early smile and spit tobacco juice at his horse's feet.

Early had worried about the Sixth Corps after that sharp fight up on the Monocacy near Frederick. He did not want to face veterans with his small army in this sad shape. But now if only militia, and some half-trained reserves held the city's defenses, probably hundred-day men, he had won the race for the capital no matter how many big cannons were in those forts.

Should be there now, Early thought, silently damning his own quartermaster's search for shoes and Rickett's brave stubborness for slowing him down. He watched his light artillery pieces jounce by and hoped they would not even be needed.

"That man," said Corporal Wainder, gesturing with his slouch hat toward the general and wiping his face on his forearm, "he is unbelievable. Some fellers say they've heard him cuss for ten minutes at a stretch without ever repeatin' hisself."

Seth looked across the road where some of Rockville's wealthier citizens, dressed in their Sunday best, stood watching the army pass by, cheering now and then when a flag appeared or some officer on horseback doffed his hat to them. Many women and quite a few girls and boys stood by buckets of water and lemonade ladling it out to grateful soldiers. Others handed out bread and biscuits. Girls gave some of the horsemen bow ribbons, and Seth saw a pretty young woman with long brown hair claim a sleeve button from an officer in exchange for her blue and red hair ribbon. She had brought her tiny scissors with her to the fence.

"I must admit," the cavalryman went on, with a smile, "that old Jubilee there, he don't like us horse soldiers very much." Seth turned his attention back to the corporal. "Calls us 'buttermilk rangers' and such. Him and Imboden had some kind of loud row a while back. Lot a'ruffled feathers. Down in Virginia, when we had our back agin the wall," Wainder was saying, sitting Indian-style in the shade, "up came old Jube, a'riding and a'cussin' and a'waving that white hat of his'n with the Stonewall Brigade right behind him, double timin'. Drove off them bluejackets jus' like that. Hadn't been for him, me an' a lot a'other cavalry fellers might be pushing up wildflowers down near Lynchburg."

In a few minutes, General Early met with some other men in the open tent where Seth had talked to Colonel Smith. An officer called over Wainder and three other dusty troopers dressed pretty much as he was. One of the general's aides rolled out a large map, the biggest Seth had ever seen, and the officers and scouts bent over it pointing and poking, holding down the upper corners with a pistol and a broken brick. Must have been a bunch of men doing what Wainder did, Seth concluded. Maybe all my lying was wasted. In the middle of the conference, Wainder straightened up and pointed to Seth, and the officers, even General Early, turned and looked toward him. Seth stared at the ground and thought about running. He wished they had put him in a dungeon or a tower cell; he had read how to get out of those.

Here was the whole Rebel army, he thought, well, a Rebel army anyway, a lot of men, hundreds, maybe thousands, marching through the streets of Rockville, and as far as I can see I'm the only Union man around. Seth closed his eyes and swallowed. Guess I am a Union man. Durn. I'm sure not here 'cause I want to be. I'm just like Robert. No, Robert was wrong. I don't know what I am. Wish I was home. Wish my hands were free. Maybe I could grab that pistol.

Finally the meeting broke up, and Seth tried to hear the orders being given. The main force of Early's army, including all the infantry and artillery, would head for Stevens and enter the city on a plank road called Seventh Street. Meanwhile McCausland's cavalry would go down the Frederick Pike and test the defenses north of Georgetown. With a long stick General Early thrust at the map and told his commanders what he expected of them, loudly and profanely. It would have been hard for Seth not to hear.

Wainder came looking for Seth and found him sitting at the side of the tent. "Could you hear what they said, boy?" Wainder asked, smiling. "They believed me." Seth had never seen the soldier look so happy. "Reno's too strong but Stevens might be empty."

"How about untying me?" the boy asked, holding his hands out toward the soldier. His chafed wrists ached, and he had given up trying to undo the knot with his thumbs.

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The French's winding farm lane met the long-traveled Pike about a half mile north of Luke Williams' general store. At the open gate Jefferson pulled the faded, gray wagon into the shade of a weeping willow near a dried up brook. The three of them listened. Insects whirred and a faint breeze rustled the dry leaves. Seth walked out into the middle of the worn, hard-surfaced road on stiff legs. He could not see anything out of the ordinary. He had expected cavalry patrols racing back and...

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The President joined his wife and the other sightseers in a place of relative safety behind the fort's thick wall, and General Wright went back to his troops. Seth left the fort and crossed the crowded turnpike. The eager spectators pressed forward, excited by the increased activity. Seth elbowed his way through the mob, most of whom seemed to be in a holiday mood. He moved into the scrubby woods and past the piles of cleared brush where he had seen the New York soldiers disappear. He wanted...

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DMZ, Korean Peninsula: 1-17-05, 05:19 A.M. Sojang (Major-General) Hyun Li raised his binoculars and looked across the DMZ at the American and South Korean forces, as the sun slowly rose over the landscape. Picking up the phone, he gave the order he had been waiting for thirty years, to give. "Fire." Up and down the DMZ, eight thousand artillery pieces and twenty-four hundred multiple missile launchers raised their barrels from hidden weapon emplacements while three thousand aircraft...

The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 29 Interfaces

The Federation battleship USS Washington: 1:50 P.M. Jessica handled the ship as though she was born to do it. The ship was shrugging off the enemy fire and her weapons were firing at the Washington D.C. shield trying to take it down. Turning her head she smiled at her husband and wife as the status reports came in from the fleet. "Enemy shield down to 36% power," reported Lieutenant Akiko Fujimoto. "Thanks, Akiko. Keep up the pressure," Tammy said just as Jessica screamed and the ship...

Seth II CarolineChapter 14 More Business in Rockville

1871 Robert leaned on the small oak table in the sitting room of the farmhouse where he and his family had lived for more than two years. The clapboard home with its two frail-looking chimneys perched on a rounded hilltop near the road to Darnestown, barely a mile from the center of Rockville and the busy store where he worked ten or more hours a day, six days each week. He could hear his wife upstairs getting their children to bed, his son squalling as usual about wanting to stay up...

The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 11 Battle for SOL Part three

Court "Commander Amy Thompson, by a count of 7 to 0 we, the court, find you guilty of all charges. You are sentenced to death and the destruction of your capsule and your ship," Sandi said as she looked at the woman. Amy's knees buckled and she collapsed to the floor, and muttered quietly, "my baby. Don't kill my baby, oh God please don't let them kill my baby." "This court will reform inside the capsule room of the USS Washington's primary interface and initiate the destruction...

The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 15 Terra

POW CAMP 2 1-14-05 Thirty-nine year old Sergeant Sandra MacEwen looked out at the barbed wire as the five men digging the grave for Captain Vickie Tamping, the young Canadian woman who was taken on Space Dock Two leading a small unit of guerrillas against the American forces. She had been wounded when she was brought in and they never gave her any of the advanced medical they had captured. Sandra's eyes floated over the three thousand wooden crosses and cringed as she remembered the first...

The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 25 Repairs

"Fuck! The Admiral is going to be pissed," Captain Mike Bonnet of the USS Badger said. "I know, and I am going to have to tell him. It's my responsibility. As to your Mechs and Marines, the ship has been cleared of all Crytherians. Anyone left alive is outside and fair game. If you can get your Mechs to create a safe zone for us, I will get all my spiders initiating emergency repairs to get us back into space," turning he looked at Lisa and asked, "Lisa, how long until we get repairs...

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“Volunteers for the Defense Forces with CAP scores of certain published levels will be afforded the opportunity to select others to emigrate and maintain their residences on other worlds while they perform their duties in the Defense Forces in accordance with their aptitudes and capabilities; certain high-priority individuals may select up to ten people to emigrate with for this purpose. Obviously, fertility is a criterion -- we will be looking to ensure the continuity of the human race as it...

The 400 Year WarChapter 8 The French and Indian Wars

1760 The Fall of Montreal The heated battles of the French and Indian Wars were primarily fought in the deep forests and isolated outposts of the exposed English settlers. However, the British eventually brought the fight directly into the heart of the French Colonial Homeland in Canada. The initial assaults on Quebec were fought off but it eventually fell to the English forces in 1759 with much loss of life and property. The key to this success was the prior taking of Fort Niagara by the...

The Destroyers Book 3 Civil WarChapter 6 Battle for Mars

Mars Base: Federation Side Thirteen-year-old Mitchell Young sat back from his computer screen, looked at the final design of the APES, and watched the simulation run. Within seconds, they had devastated a unit of T'Lari warriors. Reaching over to the keypad, he typed in a few commands and watched the T'Lari change to battle Mechs and it took a little bit longer but they were able to wipe out the twenty Mechs for the loss of only five of the APES. With a grin, he said, "It's going to...

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