Sinopsis

A few months ago, as I was leaving Baltimore for a summer sojourn on the
coast of Maine, two old soldiers of the war between the States took their
seats immediately behind me in the car, and began a lively conversation
about the various battles in which they had faced each other more than a
quarter of a century ago, when a trip to New England would have been no
holiday jaunt for one of their fellow-travellers. The veterans went into the
minute detail that always puts me to shame, when I think how poor an
I should give, if pressed to describe the military movements that I
have happened to witness; and I may as well acknowledge at the outset
that I have as little aptitude f...