Chapter 29
It was easy for Bart to see how overjoyed George was when his pa came home on furlough. It had been years since George had seen him.
George was quiet for about a week after his pa returned to his regiment, and Bart did his best to cheer his friend.
Two months later Bart thought George was going to jump into his arms when George announced that his ma was going to have another baby.
And then came April, 1865, and his brother Nate came to find him at work. Some of the money Bart and Mary Agnes had earned had gone to his schooling, and when he’d learned he’d have to stop going to the academy and get a job, he hadn’t made any effort to conceal his dissatisfaction, especially when that job turned out to be sweeping the floors at Bradway’s Dry Goods.
“Ma came to get me at Mr. Brad
