Lookin' back
I love this photo from about 1913. It could be an exercise in a creative writing class – tell a story based on the image. An old Confederate thinking about the battle from fifty years ago. Parched and scared he ripped the US canteen from a dead Yankee. Or, they say the American Civil War was a brothers’ war because brothers were known to fight for opposing sides (although as The 48th Pennsylvania Infantry … points out it was more likely that a group of brothers would fight and die for the same country). Maybe the canteen belonged to this old man’s now deceased brother. Where’s Stephen Crane when you need him?
Happy New Year!
