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Название книги: How Few Remain
Автор(ы): Harry Turtledove
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Now twenty years have passed away,Since I here bid farewellTo woods, and fields, and scenes of playAnd school-mates loved so well.Where many were, now few remainOf old familiar things!But seeing these to mind againThe lost and absent brings.The friends I left that parting day How changed, as time has sped!Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,And half of all are dead.- Abraham Lincoln,"My Childhood Home I See Again"Prelude
1862
SeptemberOutside Frederick, MarylandT he Army of Northern Virginia was breaking camp. The lean, ragged soldiers, their gray uniforms and especially their shoes much the worse for wear, began the next long tramp, this one north and west toward Hagerstown. They were profoundly -and profanely-glad to be getting away from Frederick."That 'Bonnie Blue Flag,' that ain't nothin' but a damn pack o' lies," a corporal announced to anyone who would listen as he slung his haversack over his shoulder."You'd best believe it is," one of the privates in his company agreed, pausing in the middle of
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