Today we have an excerpt from Part Two Chapter 100 page 32
A few minutes later, the helpful sergeant returned, and as he stepped down from his mount, he spoke directly to Cadmus. “I found a barn just up ahead. Let’s get this cavalryman to a better shelter and out from this rain.”
Cadmus agreed, and between the two of them, they managed to get the dysfunctional Senator up into
Cadmus’s saddle in such a fashion that he could steady the weight of his unstable body.
The sergeant took the reins of Senator’s horse and led them to the anticipated shelter.
Within a half-hour, he had Senator in the barn with the comforts of a dry hayloft. Upon getting settled, the sergeant questioned, “Are you boys with J. E. B. Stuart?”
“Yes,” responded Cadmus.
“I’m with General Pickett—or I’m supposed to be.
Excerpt from Part two Chapter 100 Page 34
He retreated back up the ladder to the safety of the loft. Cadmus and the sergeant sat side by side in the open doorway and witnessed the retreating trudging parade of Confederate infantry with horse-drawn wagons and artillery mule wagons along with an assortment of divisional riding horses.
“Not much order in a retreating army is there?” muttered the sergeant. “It’s more like a chaotic entanglement of artillery and drummers from a marching band mixed into a confused herd of stampeding cattle with out-of-step musical horses.
"What a muddle.”
They sat in silence, witnessing the kerfuffle.
Cadmus sneered. “It is sort of comical, isn’t it?”
The sergeant half-heartedly agreed. “If it wasn’t so serious a predicament, it would be funny.”
Pull Toffee (Grandma Feller recipe)
2 cups white sugar
¾ cup Rogers Syrup
¼ cup butter
½ cup water
Place all ingredients in a medium heavy bottom pan
Cook on medium heat stirring constantly until sugar is dissolved
Continue cooking until mixture reaches the hard ball stage on a candy thermometer
Take off heat, add 1 tsp vanilla and ½ tsp of baking soda
stir till combine and pour into a buttered sheet pan
Cool till it reaches a temperature cool enough to handle
Take pieces of warm toffee in buttered hands and pull into a long rope, fold in half and pull again
many times, folding each time until it changes into a pale creamy color
Pull into a single long rope and cut pieces off the size of a piece of Toffee with buttered scissors
onto parchment lined sheet pan
Continue until all toffee is pulled and cut
Enjoy!
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