“I promise you before we leave, I’ll bring some men down here and make sure he is given his own grave. I promise.”
“I doubt if you will have time,” James sighed. “I know you mean it. Perhaps someday, someday after this war is over, we’ll do it together.”
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Gingrich, Newt.
The battle of the crater : a novel / Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen.—1st ed.
p. cm.
e-ISBN 9781429990622
1. Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864—Fiction. I. Forstchen, William R. II. Title.
PS3557.I4945B38 2011
813'.54—dc23
2011026677
First Edition: November 2011
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