on a much-needed vacation to his family's cabin near Newburgh
where the appearance of a scruffy yellow pamphlet calling itself Private Eye overturned the way Britons looked at their world
the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar
Maybe you should be in school
even though I almost screamed when the wind blew a branch against the tree outside my study
A Fierce Glory the bet on a much-needed vacation toOn September 17, 1862, the "United States" was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle and the result reverberates to this day. Given the deep divisions that still rive the nation, given what unites the country, too, Antietam is more relevant now than ever. The epic battle, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, was a Civil War turning point. The South had just launched