Tales From a Revolution: Delaware
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Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 202
Size: 5.50 x 8.50 in
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Delaware, 1783:
What was broken by war must be healed for peace...
Caspar escapes an American ambush on his Hessian company, and builds a new life for himself as a tailor. When his old sergeant shows up after the peace treaty is signed, he must confront the question of how former bitter foes learn to live together.
Historical Context
Set in Delaware just as the treaty ending the Revolution is published, The Bridge takes place in the uneasy aftermath of the American Revolution, when former Patriots and Loyalists who had spent years on opposite sides of a bitter civil conflict had to find ways to live alongside one another again. With independence won but its consequences still unfolding, the novel explores the difficult work of reconciliation, rebuilding communities, and deciding what peace might actually mean after revolution.
The sound, like a swift, buzzing bee, passed by his ear and caught Caspar Schmidt's attention before the first crack of a musket's fire reached him. It wasn't until the man who had been glumly marching beside him fell groaning to the ground that he realized that the two noises had been associated, and that they were under attack.
READ MOREThere was no time to shoulder his own musket and return fire. Another volley sounded from the woods, and more men fell wounded around him. He heard an odd metallic bang as one man's high, decorative hat was struck by a musket ball, and Caspar dropped to the ground to avoid suffering the same fate. He rolled away from the muddy road and into the wet grass along the verge, the wild thought striking him that all of his attention to the cleanliness and upkeep of his uniform was now for naught.
He now heard his officers shouting orders and the deafening report of Hessian muskets finally answering the Americans, but the tall grass into which he'd rolled blocked his fellow soldiers from view. Indeed, he felt a curious sense of detachment from the action unfolding just a short distance from where he lay, the damp soaking through his clothing and reaching his skin.
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