{"id":1048,"date":"2009-03-25T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2009-03-25T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:51:21","slug":"how-the-north-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2009\/03\/how-the-north-won\/","title":{"rendered":"How the North Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — News item<\/a>: The Fort Smith National Historic Site<\/a> will host a reenactment of the Confederate occupation of Fort Smith from 1861-63 on Saturday. … Union soldiers abandoned the garrison at Fort Smith on April 23, 1861, leaving the fort open to Arkansas state troops. Union forces recaptured the fort in September 1863.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pvt. B: Now what? How long have we been here?<\/p>\n

Pvt. D: Feels like two years and a summer, but maybe just since Friday.<\/p>\n

B: Got nothing to do, and it’s still hot, and there’s mosquitoes.<\/p>\n

D: It’s just us Confederates and the townsfolk, and they’ve got their stores and taverns, and we’ve got sticky old decks of cards. The North must be occupied up or down a piece. They left, and really left us alone.<\/p>\n

B: Want to play Army?<\/p>\n

D: We did that. Go to Belle Point, you said. Let’s skip stones in the Arkansas River. Then we got conscripted.<\/p>\n

B: But not before a few rounds of throwing the old Frisbee.<\/p>\n

D: That was good. Too bad it you flicked it into the Poteau River.<\/p>\n

B: Yeah. This fort’s dead. Let’s bike to the Mall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — News item: The Fort Smith National Historic Site will host a reenactment of the Confederate occupation of Fort Smith from 1861-63 on Saturday. … Union soldiers abandoned the garrison at Fort Smith on April 23, 1861, leaving the fort open to Arkansas state troops. Union forces recaptured the fort in September 1863. 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