Burial of the Guns (American Short Story Series, V. 73)

Description

1860s. Six tales depicting the South of the days before and after the war, with deep affection for the old patriarchal society but without blindness to its darker side. Title-story a gallant, pathetic episode of the closing Civil War. The others contain some very tender and affectionate sketches of character. — Baker, E. A., A Guide to Historical Fiction (1914)

First Sentence

We do not keep Christmas now as we used to do in old Hanover.

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