The Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War's Close

Although he was an officer in full uniform he was a youth in years and he had the spirits of youth. Moreover it was one of the finest apple trees he had ever seen and the apples hung everywhere round ripe and red fairly asking to be taken and eaten. Dick Mason looked up at them longingly. They made him think of the orchards at home in his own state and a touch of coolness in the air sharpened his appetite for them all the more.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)