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By Clarence L. Morrison

The Grits Eaters is an emotion-packed saga of a tender Florida guy, Arch Morrison, who on the age of 19 enlisted within the accomplice military to guard his domestic from the invading Union military. He rose to the rank of lieutenant and on the finish of the conflict, used to be eventually discharged after serving six extra months after The Armistice in a federal military felony, due to the fact that he refused to pledge allegiance to the U.S. executive. He had witnessed too many
atrocities by the hands of the Union military and was once shamefully abused and mistreated whereas in criminal, to contemplate such an oath and his oath to the Confederacy avoided him from one other oath of allegiance.

After his ultimate liberate, he and spouse squaddies begun their perilous trip again to Florida afoot and 1000's of miles from domestic, with out funds, guns or transportation the aid of their captors. in the course of their tough trip domestic they encountered numerous difficulties virtually day-by-day starting with an try to kill them by way of a Union sergeant, who hated them, and day-by-day scavenging for foodstuff via areas frequently adversarial to them. pushed by
their selection to come back domestic, they arrived in Atlanta, Georgia the place they stole 3 mules from armed Union military squaddies as a way to outrun these in pursuit. when they crossed into Florida, they spilt up with Arch continuing to his father’s domestic basically to profit of his father’s loss of life while he was once away on responsibility and that he now had the accountability of offering for his in basic terms surviving sister, a stepmother and small half-brothers that have been born in the course of his travel of
duty. Trials of way of life have been tough with such a lot of now hoping on him as sole supplier, yet with frontier talents, choice, religion, and difficult paintings, he supplied for all of them, later marrying and elevating a family members of his personal.

His infamous mood ended in his arrest and trial for killing a neighbor’s bull. within the trial he was once convicted and fined and used to be later accused of burning the courtroom condo in retribution. In a moment trial, he used to be chanced on “not guilty,” although the mysteries surrounding the development will be rumored for a few years, contributing to a legend of a larger-than-life hero who lived through his convictions.

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