Have ever wished you had a "rewind" button on your life, so that every time you put your foot in it, blurted out The wrong thing to say or did something particularly stupid or damaging? Just rewind and play that bit of your life again, only do it better this time? Yes? Well, you never know, but you may be able to rewind your life too.
I called my troops to attention and turned to face the Union Major, who was in charge of the Union Company, about the same size as mine. Before yesterday, he was the enemy. I saluted and waited for the next order. “Major James Giffords of the Confederate States Army, you have given us your word you would surrender your troops, your arms, and what ammunition you have.”
Retribution was necessary, sure, and certain. But, who had visited retribution on whom? And could two marriages in disarray because of infidelity survive the outcome?