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Go to the Beginning Chapter 12: (Brought to you by kat impatientreader.com) The rebels overrun Oak Landing plantation in the middle of the night. Mr. March hides, but they seize Canning, shooting him in the knees. They kill Ptolemy, an old black man, trying to force March out of hiding to save him. Then they torch the cotton fields and take the black children as slaves. Poor Zannah runs to join them so she can be with her son Jimse. Chapter 13: March and Jesse follow the rebels to a camp in the woods where the rebels get drunk on some homemade liquor that Jesse left at his cabin and laced with something to make them sick. As each rebel staggers into the woods to relieve himself, Jesse kills them and takes their weapons. Jesse tries to give March a gun so that March can help him rescue the kids, but March refuses it: he cannot take a life. The rebel leader questions Canning who can't name anyone willing to pay a ransom for him. March watches in agitation until the rebel leader verges on shooting Canning, then bursts out of hiding and shouts that Canning's fiancée will pay his ransom (he once saw the girl's photo). But Canning says that his fiancée died last year of consumption. The rebels tie up both Canning and March. March relapses into his yellow fever. Zannah, who has been made to tend the campfire, tiptoes around and unties the captives. Jesse starts shooting the rebels, and the captives run for safety. March sees Canning and several of the captives die, then loses consciousness and is left for dead. Zannah returns to tend to him, and he learns her son Jimse is dead. She gives March a lock of Jimse's hair, then gets March on a mule and takes him to safety. He wakes on a Union ship, being tended by nuns who tell him that Zannah brought him to a Union fort and wrote a message on her scarf that he was a Union captain and a "good, kind man." March is overcome by sorrow. Part Two (Marmee's viewpoint) Chapter 14: Marmee sits at Mr. March's bedside in a Georgetown hospital and remembers the afternoon in Concord when he volunteered to join the Union army. Appalled that he might die and doom his family to poverty, she stretched out her hands in tears to prevent him. In her memory, he knew full well she didn't want him to join, and he did it anyway, and so she gripped his hand tightly afterwards to hurt him. She remembers getting word that her husband was in the Georgetown hospital, and traveling there with young Mr. Brooke, a friend of the family to serve as her escort in the muddy, refugee-crowded chaos that is Washington DC. She remembers meeting a beautiful black nurse (Grace Clement, unknown to her at first) who warns her that Mr. March is changed by his illness. Marmee is horrified to find him delirious on the yellow fever ward. An abrasive Nurse Flynn will answer none of her questions. Overwhelmed, Marmee meekly leaves and follows Mr. Brooke to the squalid rooming house of Mrs. Jamison, which is the best lodging that they can get in the overcrowded city. Chapter 15: Marmee returns to the hospital where Mr. March lies untended, and realizes she must change his sheets and clean him up herself. She runs into the odious Nurse Flynn and tries hard to be polite but soon loses her temper and throws a bowl of soup on the horrible woman. An orderly Cephus White finds her a place to sit until Nurse Flynn goes off her shift. A union chaplain gives Marmee her husband's personal possessions. Marmee returns to the ward in time to see nurse Grace Clement stroking March's face. She wonders if they were lovers, but cannot confront them because Mr. Brooke rushes up joyfully, saying that he hears Mr. March is awake. |
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