Mudville Gazette: Danger Close

Saturday, 21 November 2009

Through the binoculars, Nelson looked east across the valley and saw the horsemen all carrying weapons, AKs and RPG tubes, glittering belts of ammo wrapped around their shoulders. milled about the plain, their horse picketed nearby chewing ravenously at the glass. Nelson thought back to fifteen years earlier when hed been commissioned as an officer in a ceremony on the Shiloh Civil War battlefield in Tennessee. Hed studied the cavalry tactics of Jeb Stuart and John Mosby, whose Mosbys Raiders...read read full story from Mudville Gazette