[The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tree of Appomattox CHAPTER VIII 23/34
Strange as her position was, she seemed easy and confident, lightly swinging in her hand a small riding whip. "I'll not ask you for the present, Henrietta, how you come to be here," said Shepard, "but I'll ask instead what you've brought.
These young men are Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Warner and Lieutenant Pennington. As I've indicated already, Lieutenant Mason leads us." "I bring information," she replied, "information that you will be glad to carry to General Sheridan.
As a woman I could go where men could not, and you remember, Brother William, that I know the country." "Almost as well as I do," said Shepard.
"As a girl you rode like a man and were afraid of nothing.
Nor do you fear anything today." "Tell General Sheridan," she said, turning to Dick, "that the Confederate numbers are even less than he thinks, that a large area at the base of Little North Mountain is wholly unoccupied." "And if we get there," exclaimed Dick, eagerly, "we can crash in on the flank of Early." "I'm not a soldier," she said, "but that plan was in my mind.
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