Dear Author:

[nightdog_barks]

I do not think this sentence conveys the information you think it conveys.

Two years later his older brothers started enlisting one after another in the Union Army to fight the Yankees, leaving only the three youngest -- Hiram, Absalom, and Frank, age eleven, nine, and seven -- to work the farm under their father for the duration of the war.

Bolding mine, for emphasis.

Comments

[namaste]

We have seen the enemy, and it is us.

[silverjackal]

:D Slipped by the author *and* the editor. What makes it so amusing to me is that I spotted it right away, and I don't know that much about U.S. history.

[pwcorgigirl]

Oookay. From what deathless work is that taken?

[taiga13]

(Inigo Montoya impression) "I do not think it means what you think it means."

[topaz_eyes]

Now I've heard of infighting, but that takes it to a whole new level. 0.o

[hannah]

It's a suitably epic mistake, at the very least.

[verbal_kint]

HUMAN SACRIFICE, CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER...MASS HYSTERIA!