Thomas Nelson Page (1853–1922)

It's everything a poor history text would be: long-winded with scant use of paragraphing and prolific use of passive verbiage. Comprehension requires diligence, something that a younger me would not have bothered with.

The story follows a Confederate army faction and their "guns"--which kind of guns to distinguish them from regular infantry guns, the author never clarifies--in Virginia all through the American Civil War. The Colonel and his division grew fond of their six guns and named them show more The Cat, The Eagle, and The Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Each gun has special character that warrants the name. However, as the title of the story implies, there comes a time when the men must bury their loved machines. Don't worry that's 9,000 words in the making. Most of the story is details about the war from a general's distant, conceptual view and nothing memorable. show less

Excellent, excellent....Turn of the century fiction. People are missing out...The stories are so wonderfully built. The plot continues and expands to contain all the characters in a rich story. Very descriptive. Like I have said of this type of fiction before, it takes a long time to read but it is worth every moment. Like a movie or tv series that you don't want to end. This is what life was like between the Civil War and the 1920's. Read it....

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Conventonmal verse, one on Francis Drake and the Spanish-American War; amother symbolically suggests US alliance with ritainvs. Russia and Japan? (the Tig811 P 132er?)