Can you write an interesting paragraph or 2 that includes these words?

Question

And NO...this is not homework. I am a 58 year old that loves to read the creative efforts from the folks on this site.
1. Gettysburg
2. Pickett's Charge
3. Hot summer day
4. Southern troops
5. The Union line
6. Smell of gunpowder

Answer 1

It was July 3rd, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg. It was a typical hot summer day. Hot and humid. We all knew what was going to happen. We could feel it in our blood, in our veins. We were shaking, trying not to let our nerves get to us. The southern troops were divided into the three divisions and I was part of Major General George Pickett's troop. Robert E. Lee had told him that we were to lead the assault and so the plan was later deemed "Pickett's Charge", though most of the commands were given by Lt. General James Longstreet.

We started the infantry charge around one in the middle of an open field. Marching with about 12,000 men, I knew we all could feel the weight of the forecoming doom. When you're marching heart to heart, with the smell of gunpowder burning your nostrils and stinging your eyes, it's impossible not to feel the unending waves of emotion. Here we were, not even close to the Union line and already we were dropping one by one, whether it be from a cannon or from the intensity of the afternoon heat.

STORY TO BE CONTINUED....

Answer 2

Several years ago we took our four children to Gettysburg for a family vacation. Before embarking on our journey, we stopped at Pickett's Charge, a restaurant close to our home, to fortify ourselves for the day's journey. The day was warm and our car didn't have air conditioning in those days.
When we got there we walked the battle fields and toured the museum. We even found spent gun shells on the ground. From reading the history, it was a particularly bloody war. Oddly people came as spectators to the war, considering it a day's outing, never expecting it to be so horrific. Reading the history, you could almost smell the gunpowder. We viewed the uniforms of the northern and southern troops. The outcome of the war was grim for the north moving the union line farther northward.
As an interesting side line, I just read in the newspaper that they are tearing down the observation tower there. I think that the idea is that it interferes with the viewing of the battlefields as they actually were.


The above is pretty much true, we even have a restaurant by that name in our area. Hope you like this better than my last effort.
Susan

Answer 3

The mercury read 110 degrees in Gettysburg -- definitely unusual and not the kind of day for the southern troops to be rallying outside the newspaper office. Things were certainly hot enough inside given the outrageous deception being sold as truth.

The union line's pickets carried bold signs with calls for TRUTH and voices both in unison and in tandem began chanting their demands. The tension was palpable. This was not just another hot summer day!

As the numbers of marchers outside increased, bystanders gathered -- cheering and adding to the chaos. The local gendarmes had been called but hadn't yet arrived.

Suddenly, from who knows where, a shot rang out and the smell of gunpowder filled the acrid air. This was enough to to make the pickets charge in all directions, signage strewn everywhere.