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Titles in Short Stories category:

• Burial of the Guns, The

  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 intrenched 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 ...

• Gray Jacket of "No. 4", The

  My meeting with him was accidental. I came across him passing through "the square". I had seen him once or twice on the street, each time lurching along so drunk that he could scarcely stagger, so that I was surprised to hear what he said about the war. He was talking to someone who evidently ...

• How the Captain made Christmas

  It was just a few days before Christmas, and the men around the large fireplace at the club had, not unnaturally, fallen to talking of Christmas. They were all men in the prime of life, and all or nearly all of them were from other parts of the country; men who had come to the great city to ma ...

• Little Darby

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• Miss Dangerlie's Roses

  Henry Floyd was a crank, at least so many people said; a few thought he was a wonderful person: these were mostly children, old women, and people not in the directory, and persons not in the directory do not count for much. He was in fact a singular fellow. It was all natural enough to him; h ...

• My Cousin Fanny

  We do not keep Christmas now as we used to do in old Hanover.
  We have not time for it, and it does not seem like the same thing.
  Christmas, however, always brings up to me my cousin Fanny;
  I suppose because she always was so foolish about Christmas.