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by Harry Harrison

“There is still a lot of trouble brewing up out there,” Grant said, his words echoing Sherman’s thoughts. “Do you think that those people, all those Europeans with their frictions and feuds and long memories of war and revolution — do you think that they can keep the lid on all their troubles?”

  “I certainly hope that they can.”

  “Haven’t done too well in the past, have they?”

  “Indeed they haven’t. But perhaps they will do better in the future.” Sherman drained his glass, put it down on the table beside him. “Still, they will have to be watched. My appointment by the President was to keep America free. We have all traveled a long and bitter road to assure that freedom. Our country must not be threatened ever again. Nor will it ever be, not while I have a breath in my body.”

  “I am with you there, Cumph, we all are. Peace is our aim — but war is our trade. We don’t want it. But if it comes we can lick it.”

  “That we surely can. Good night, Ulysses. Sleep well.”

  “We all shall sleep well. Now.”

  SUMMER — 1865

  THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

  Abraham Lincoln President of the United States

  William H. Seward Secretary of State

  Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War

  Gideon Welles Secretary of the Navy

  Salmon P. Chase Secretary of the Treasury

  Gustavus Fox Assistant Secretary of the Navy

  Judah P. Benjamin Secretary for the South

  John Nicolay First Secretary to President Lincoln

  John Hay Secretary to President Lincoln

  William Parker Parrott Gunsmith

  John Ericsson Inventor of USS Monitor

  UNITED STATES ARMY

  General William Tecumseh Sherman

  General Ulysses S. Grant

  General Ramsay Head of Ordinance Department

  General Robert E. Lee

  General Thomas Francis Meagher Commander of the Irish Brigade

  Colonel Andy Summers

  UNITED STATES NAVY

  Captain Schofield Captain of USS Avenger

  Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Naval Commander in Chief

  Captain Raphael Semmes Captain of USS Virginia

  Captain Sanborn Captain of USS Pennsylvania

  Captain Dodge Captain of USS Thunderer

  Captain Curtin Captain of USS Atlas

  Captain Van Horn Captain of USS Devastation

  Commander William Wilson Second Officer of USS Dictator

  GREAT BRITAIN

  Victoria Regina Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

  Lord Palmerston Prime Minister

  Lord John Russell Foreign Secretary/Prime Minister

  William Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer

  Benjamin Disraeli Leader of the Opposition

  John Stuart Mill

  BRITISH ARMY

  Duke of Cambridge Commander in Chief

  Brigadier Somerville the Duke’s Aide

  General Bagnall

  General Sir William Armstrong Commander in Chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in India

  BRITISH NAVY

  Admiral Spencer

  Lieutenant Archibald Fowler Lieutenant HMS Defender

  BELGIUM

  Ambassador Pierce American Ambassador to Belgium

  Leopold King of Belgium

  Baron Surlet de Chokier Belgian Foreign Minister

  IRELAND

  Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa President of the Republic of Ireland

  Isaac Butt Vice-President of the Republic of Ireland

  Ambassador O’Brin Irish Ambassador to the United States of America

  Thomas McGrath Irish Intern in Birmingham

  Patrick McDermott Irish Intern in Birmingham

  RUSSIA

  Admiral Paul S. Makhimov Admiral Russian Navy

  Count Alexander Igoreivich Korzhenevski Captain of the Aurora

  Lieutenant Simenov First Engineer of Aurora

  SCOTLAND

  General McGregor Commander in Chief of Her Majesty’s Forces in Scotland

  Mr. MacLaren of the Highland Council

  Robert Dalglish Chairman of the National Party of Scotland

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