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    The Blood of Patriots
    The Blood of Patriots
    The Blood of Patriots
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    The Blood of Patriots

    By Troy D. Smith

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    A SHORT TALE OF TERROR by award-winning author Troy D. Smith

    Colonel Jeffords has more to worry about than the Confederate Army. He has chosen to employ an infamous Union guerrilla band led by the mysterious Captain Vincent Caine -a band so bloodthirsty that the enemy may not be enough to satiate them. Vincent Caine has a secret, you see -a terrible, terrible secret. And a terrible hunger...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCane Hollow Press
    Release dateAug 16, 2012
    ISBN9781476146461
    The Blood of Patriots
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    Troy D. Smith

    Born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee, Mr. Smith has loved books even before he could read them. In 1995 his first short story was accepted by Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he has been published in magazines since then on a fairly regular basis. Author of numerous award winning short stories and novels, Troy is currently a Doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Illinois. He says, "I don't write about things that happen to people—I write about people that things happen to."

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      The Blood of Patriots - Troy D. Smith

      THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS

      By

      Troy D. Smith

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY:

      Wolf Pass Books

      THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS

      Copyright © 2012 by Troy D. Smith

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      *****

      THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS

      There was something about Vincent Caine. Something which –from the first moment I saw him outside Fredricksburg –told me that the Englishman was no ordinary fighting man. I could not place it at the time, the odd feeling which crept into my gut on each occasion I saw him. There was a coldness in Caine’s features, you see, which slithered at you in the pale moonlight like a serpent.

      Of course, Caine was not an ordinary fighting man –he was an irregular, or scout. A guerilla. That breed of man is often cruel and independent –even arrogant, not used to submitting to military discipline.

      And Caine was one of the more infamous Union guerillas. He and his band struck fear into Rebels, and anyone else who crossed them.

      Looking at him for the second time, just before Chancellorsville, I could understand why. A buzz of irrational fear pricked at the base of my skull when the man reported in to me, and the sensation heightened when Caine smiled.

      Good morning, Colonel Jeffords, he said. I had never quite been able to trace his accent –having traveled Britain in my youth, I prided myself on placing regional inflections.

      I rubbed my bleary eyes and brought my tin coffee cup to my mouth with both hands.

      Morning! I said contemptuously as I sat the

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