The book Before the Dawn a Story of the Fall of Richmond was written by author Altsheler Joseph Alexander Here you can read free online of Before the Dawn a Story of the Fall of Richmond book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Before the Dawn a Story of the Fall of Richmond a good or bad book?
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Within that cloud of smoke and flashing flame the fate of a nation hung the South was a nation to him and before the sun set the decree might be given. He was filled with woe to be sitting there looking on at so vast an event. Vain, selfish and superficial, depths in his nature were touched at last. This was no longer a scene set as at a theatre, upon which one might fight for the sake of ambition or a personal glory. Suddenly he sank into insig- nificance. The fortunes or the feelings of one m...an were lost in mightier issues. "It's coming back !" exclaimed Mrs. Markham. The battle again approached the old house, the 218 BEFORE THE DAWN clouds swept up denser and darker, the tumult of the rifles and the great guns grew louder; the voices, the cries and the commands were heard again, and the human figures, distorted and unreal, reappeared against the black or fiery background. To Helen's mind returned the simile of a huge flaming pit in which multitudes of little imps struggled and fought.
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