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No exertion of Braddock, nor of Washington, nor of anyone prevailed. The General had four horses shot under him and Washington had two. Still the hillsides and the depths of the wood were spotted by puffs of smoke, and the slaughter-pen was in a turmoil scarce one Englishman in three escaped bullets.
Not a shot was to be fired until the entire command was in the cut. Thirty-eight had started to “round up” Cole Younger that morning; seventeen of them lay dead in the cut that night and the rest of them had a lively chase into Independence. To this day old residents know the Blue Cut as “the slaughter-pen.” Early in May, 1862, Quantrell’s men were disbanded for a month.
Genius it should be the last to be sent to the slaughter-pen. Leon darlink don't go!" "Ma, ma you don't mean what you're saying. You wouldn't want me to reason that way. You wouldn't want me to hide behind my violin." "I would! Would! You should wait for the draft. With my Roody and even my baby Boris enlisted, ain't it enough for one mother?
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