Click2Flicks - Cold Mountain - A Deserter - Chapter 2

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>COLD MOUNTAIN</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 2 - A DESERTER</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3"> In <a href="http://www.spokaneisreading.org/frazier.htm" target="_blank"><b>Charles Frazier’s</b></a> award-winning book, <a target="_blank" href="images/cold_mountain_bookcover.JPG"><b><i>Cold Mountain</i></b></a>, Inman is a grievously wounded Confederate soldier who has had enough of war. After nearly losing his life, he walks south - convinced he will never turn back.</p> <p>At the beginning of the story (on page 9 of the paperback edition), Inman thinks about the awful battles he has experienced as a Confederate soldier:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Where to begin? . . . <a href="http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va021.htm" target="_blank">Malvern Hill</a>. Sharpsburg. <a target="_blank" href="images/petersburg.jpg">Petersburg</a>. Any would do admirably as example of unwelcome visions. But <a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/gods_generals/gods_generals_ch4.htm" target="_blank">Fredericksburg</a> was a day particularly <a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/gods_generals/gods_generals_ch5.htm" target="_blank">lodged</a> in his mind.</i></b></blockquote></font> <p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica">Later, Inman ponders <a href="http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american%20civil%20war/acw%20maps/cw54.jpg" target="_blank"><b>Petersburg</b></a>, the <a href="http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/american%20civil%20war/acw%20maps/cw55.jpg" target="_blank"><b>battle scene</b></a> of his near-fatal injury. What was the battle of <a href="http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va063.htm" target="_blank"><b>Petersburg</b></a> really like? Could it have so traumatized a Confederate soldier - like Inman - that he would leave his post without permission?</p> <p>Thanks to America’s National Archives, we can examine primary sources of the battle. Some of the photographs, including those of a subsequent <a href="http://www.petersburg-va.org/civilwar/index.htm" target="_blank"><b>siege</b></a> - the longest in U.S. history - are gruesome. The experience must have been forever seared in the memory of those who survived.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font size="2"><a href="cold_mountain_ch1.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="cold_mountain_ch3.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>