Disinterred

Chapter Seven - Dead Men do Tell Tales

     As theairplane screeching tires touch down and the thunderous engine throttles back onthe scorching hot tarmac the Captain begins to speak . Welcome to historic and beautiful Gettysburg, Pennsylvania were 53,000 Americans died in 3 days of fighting.   That's 53,000 folks.  

     That is right folks the same number of Americans that died here in 3 days of fighting, is almost the same as the total number of deaths suffered by America in the Vietnam War.  So take lots of photos and if you see a ghost please let me know about it on your return flight thank you.  And thank you for flying Concord Air.  

    Taxi!!!!  Taxi!!!  Gettysburg battlefield please.  Awe a couple of historians I see, are you two writing a book or something?  Well sir, I guess you can say that.  We are doing some pretty interesting research on the subject.  Which one?  We are studying what happen to the eleventh Mississsippi.  

    Okay, okay that was my great great grandfathers division.  Really? Yep. He fought right over yonder on Cemetery Ridge. On July 3 it participated in the famous charge up the slope of Cemetery ridge, on the extreme left of the Confederate line. 

    The entire division, under command of Pettigrew, in which the Eleventh was included, moved steadily up the slope, closing up the ranks as they were thinned and well I'll let you two do your research.  Didn't the 11th get folded into Jackson's division? 

     It did, but remember General Jackson had already been killed by this time.  They were folded into Pickett's division later in this battle.  That's right.  So who stopped the charge?  It was the 69th Pennsylvania.  Wasn't that the...That's right it was the Irish Brigade.  They were still pretty pissed off about their defeat at Fredricksburg and were ready to rectify their losses there.

     One Confederate division under General Isaac Trimble was made up almost entirely of North Carolinians. Alabamans, North Carolinians, and Mississippians filled James Pettigrew's division. The Virginia division , under General George Pickett, was the largest of the three. 

     It was aimed at the position of the 69th. Pickett's 6,000 men were soon to spearhead the attack on a sector of the Union line with only 2,000 defenders, including the 69th. Doesn't that sound like the division that the 11th got folded into dad?  Yes it does son.  It is going to be very difficult to locate Gentry's boys.

    Short of going through each of the 5,000 plus graves at the cemetery.  There are also 979 unknowns sir.  Yeah, I almost forgot about that.   This is turning out to be an impossible task.  Well, who knows maybe we will get lucky Dad.  Maybe just maybe.

    Yes, but remember something sir.  Gettysburg is a union cemetery and there are only a few confederate graves still there.  The rest were all relocated to Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas, such as Hollywood cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.  Well, hell pop what are we doing here?

      It's not so much the grave marker we are looking for as it is the story of what happened to the 11th division.  If we can find out which division those boys got folded into we might be able to find something in the archives room, such as a dairy or a letter home.  We need to find out why three went to fight and how this ties into the blood oath.

     I think that this blood oath deserves a lot more research though.  They did it to make the land plentiful.  I'm sorry sir did you say blood oath?  Yes sir I did.  What do you know about that sort of thing? 

      Well sir, I didn't mean to ease drop, but you know you cannot have a blood oath to the land without having sacrificed your first born child on that land at a specific age.  Wait what did you say? The child Sir.  The first born child once the first born becomes a certain age you must sacrifice the child or else the cycle is broken.

    The blood oath sir.  It is said that it goes in cycles.  Cycles?  Yes.  You cannot have longevity with the oath unless you have a human sacrifice.  Well, unless.....Unless what?   Well, it would depend on what kind of blood you are using to fertilize your crops.   

     If the child is not sacrificed then the oath is broken.  The only way to repair the oath is for the oldest son to also swear to the oath and then sacrifice his first born child along with the child's mother, but this can only occur after enough blood as been spilled over a period of time.  

    The oldest son, The Esther Dorthy, three son's, Three daughter's, three heads, three plantation owner's killed, and three forts!  There is pattern emerging here I see.  It seems the oldest son wasn't fitting into the family plans and he was trying to change things around here.

    If you are using human blood like the Mayan's then the only thing required is to continuously sacrifice the first born children every cycle of the same blood as that of what you are using to fertilize the land.  Holy shit pop.  That's it!  What?  

    The Gentry's oldest son he was against the oath!  Gentry sir?  Never mind.  We have arrived that will be twenty-two fifty please.  Come on Dad we just learned more from the taxi driver in twenty minutes then we learned spending four hours in the archives room.