"They hit Red Shirt [Gen. Hill] - killed him stone dead, right there on my back. His body fell out o' the saddle. When Tucker seed what had happened, he come 'longside and grabbed my bridle. He pulled both of us - me and Merlin - round and got us away. But then he got off Merlin and left him loose. He rode me back." [report by Champ, Hill's horse]
Sergeant Tucker had evidently been telling Marse Robert [Gen. Lee] the same thing. I'd never knowed Marse Robert to cry before - although I think maybe he did that time when they told him Jine-the-Cavalry [Gen. Stuart] had been killed. Anyway, he shed tears now. I could feel him sob where he was a-sitting.
(from
Traveller, by Richard Adams)
Hill
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