Nevada 1861,
It had to be done, that day had to come, and it all was waiting for me every single piece was there and ready.
I walked by the town general store with my boots swishing in the sand and the sunset on my back. It was a small town called "Rockwater" and wasn't that many of us there. Oh I forgot my name is Jack Jossel, and I live here in Rockwater. I sauntered over to "Billy Joes" with my long slacks swishing softly in the sand. I paced onto the gnarled wooden deck and walked into the saloon. I could hear the music playing and people singing and laughs and I felt a jolly atmosphere as I walked in the doors. I edged inside and saw dancers on the stage and gamblers at the tables. I took of my hat and slung it onto the hook. As I peered over the tables, I spotted my friend, Sam McPete playing poker. He pulled his chair out and strides over to me. "Jack!" he bellowed to me "Howdy Sam" I retorted warmly as I walked over to him and sat down. I picked up a paper with the date April 10th 1861 on it on the front page it said "dispute about banning slavery" I read the paper through and saw what they were talking about. It had something to do with banning slavery and some people really don't like they idea of it. I saw Sam thrusting some money into his sack that he had just won in a poker round. He came up to me and mentioned about the paper I had just table, and I told him I had just been reading it. He sounded a lot more involved in the matter than me.
That night I was in bed when I just couldn't get to sleep it was because of a man who was probably drunk; he kept on firing a revolver and was singing something. A man walking by repeatedly shot at him to scare him off and the drunken man ran away. Then I fell asleep quietly.
The next morning I hopped out of bed and got my hat and went outside. The sun was rising on the horizon just as I walked out and put my hat on. I briskly walked over to the general store and stopped off to purchase the paper. Today the headlines were "will this be the American civil war" I read on intrigued by the headlines and I just couldn't believe what I was hearing, the whole of the United States of America could be at on colossal civil war against each other. I saw a solider posting up wanted posters, pacing up to the poster to have a better look, I saw the face on it. He was bald with one gold tooth and looked very blunt. The face looked very aggressive and he didn't look like the sort of guy you would want to meet face to face. I walked on humming a soft gentle tune in my head, when a rattlesnake popped out of nowhere, it stood there quietly and stared right at me it stuck his tongue out and it vibrated repeatedly. "Gulp" it lashed out at me and bit me right on the leg. I limped over slowly to the medicine man and he lifted me up onto a chair. He looked at the wound anxiously; he wrapped it up in a bandage and said it would be ok. He then asked for the money and I handed over a few dollars in coins. Luckily I was well enough to walk and even run back home. I walked back home and lay on my bed, I immediately got up and got myself a bottle of moonshine and took a few gulps then put it back on the table. I sat back in my chair and had a rest.
The very next day I decided to go over to Sam's lodge at the other side of town. I bounded onto my horse and rode away past the bank next door. I cantered rapidly with the horse hoofs striking the sand floor quickly. I sojourn and slide of my horse. Sam sat outside on a rocking chair swishing back and forwards reading a paper he glanced over the border of the paper and said, "hey it's you jack" as he slowly took his hat off and placed it on the pristine table in front of himself. Sam is thirty two with dark short brown hair, not that tall and not so short, he has two brown eyes and a neat moustache on him. I questioned him about the article he was reading, he replied "it's about confederates who have attacked fort Sumter so Davis ordered Confederate forces to attack. After a heavy bombardment on April 12-13, with no casualties, the fort surrendered. Lincoln then called for 75,000 troops from the states to recapture the fort and other federal property. That meant marching a federal army through Virginia and North Carolina, so those states promptly joined the Confederacy so did Tennessee and Arkansas". All that shocked me it meant the American civil war had begun.
