![]() ![]() And in addition, as I think I told you before, you scared the entire South into a condition that may be described as well-nigh shitless. It is based on a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831, lead by Nate Turner. You did, as you say, come damn near to taking your army into this town. This is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by William Styron (the author of Sophies Choice). ![]() By sword and ax and gun you run a swath through this county that will be long remembered. No,” he went on, breaking off a black wad from a plug of chewing tobacco, “no, I’ll have to hand it to you, in many respects you was pretty thorough. And only God knows how many poor souls will be scarred in their minds by grief and by terrible memories until the day they part this life. But in the three days and nights that your campaign lasted you managed to hasten fifty-five white people into early graves, not counting a score or so more fearfully wounded or disabled-hors de combat, as the Frenchies say, for the rest of their natural lives. ![]() ![]() “I reckon even you didn’t know the actual statistics, hiding out until now like you done. ![]()
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