The Calloway Reckoning
The Departure happened in June 1865, six months after Appomattox. My father died of fever two weeks before — a simple infection from a wound that should have healed and didn't. He was in the house when The Departure came. I was in the barn, mending a harness, and I didn't know until three days later when I went inside and found him in his chair, still wearing the coat he'd put on that morning...
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