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Excerpt from the short story "The Burial of the Guns": Lee surrendered the remnant of his army at Appomattox, April 9, 1865, and yet a couple of days later the old Colonel's battery lay entrenched right in the mountain-pass where it had halted three days before. Two weeks previously it had been detailed with a light division sent to meet and repel a force which it was understood was coming in by way of the southwest valley to strike Lee in the rear of his long line from Richmond to Petersburg. It had done its work.

The Burial of the Guns is a collection of short stories, including one of the same name. Author and one time US Ambassador to Italy, Thomas Nelson Page, offers these stories. Page popularizes the 'plantation tradition' genre of Southern writing, which told of an idealized version of life before the Civil War, with contented slaves working for beloved masters and their families.

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