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- Bye, Clara. Have a great first day at school
- Bye, Grandpa. You take care, too.
- Clara arrives at her new school…
- FLASHBACK...
- Hello, everyone! I am Clara Davis and I am a new student here. I live with my grandpa
- Good morning, Clara. So you are the new student. Please introduce yourself to the class
- Hello Clara, I am Mary. I can help show the school around.
- I live with my grandpa and we moved to this place because this is my grandpa’s hometown. He moved North in his teens because he wanted to join the Union Army
- Sure! It was…
- Do you live with your grandpa? Where did you live before? Why did you move here?
- Interesting… Please tell us more about him.
- I want to volunteer to serve in the army and fight against the slavery.
- Join the Union army? But we are from NC, the South. If we freed those slaves, then we will not longer be superior.
- Yes, we may be from South, but we don't own any slave. So, freeing slaves should not affect us.
- Even our founding fathers said that "all men are created equal." They were not able to follow their ideals, but we should. I know the economy will be devastated, but this has to happen sometime or the other.
- William reaches the Union Headquakers...
- Moreover, we don't need to be superior to anyone.
- William reaches the Union General Grant's Camp...
- Don't worry, I will be back home in no time. You take care of yourself and kids. I will write to you from time to time.
- Take me to the most North Railroad. I want to go to Union Army Headquakers.
- Hello, General. I am William Davis from NC. But I want to fight for the Union Army.
- Okay, Union Army appreciates your efforts. Thank you. You can go to the Tennessee and join General Grant's army.
- Welcome! I am General Grant. Sam will show you around.
- Hello, William! I am Sam. I heard you are from NC. Let me tell you something first of all, more soldiers died from disease and infections than the actual war casualties this one year since the Civil War started. We don't get supplies on time either. We have to survive through hunger and bad weather when we didn't get proper clothing.
- The conditions do look like how you described them. Oh, God. I didn't consider this when I decided.
- Note: William will wear the same uniform as Sam.
- Confederate Army attacked... and the Battle of Shiloh ended.
- Sam, where are you? Can you come over here
- I don't feel very good.
- All the Union soldiers are brought back to the camp.
- What happened William? Are you not feeling good?
- It has only been one and a half week you came and you already suffering. Oh, God. Okay let's get you to a doctor.
- I am not feeling well. I have high fever and a headache. I have vomited a couple of times from morning.
- Oh, God. Your hands have so many mosquito bites. You probably have malaria. I will you some quinine, so you can recover fast.
- Also, write them that we need more anesthesia for surgeries and quinine to prevent malaria.
- You are right, Clara Barton! We don't even enough beds. We will need to send the more seriously wounded to the Sanitary Commission by waterways immediately.
- Doctor, many soldiers have been injured. We will need more supplies
- All the soldiers reached the hospital
- Hello William, I hope you feeling okay. You already have malaria. Let's move you from hear so you can better treatment
- One week later...
- Captain, All the seriously wounded are on the ship, right? The chief doctor told us take them so he make sure the other physicians easily treat the not so serious ones without a lot of equipment.
- FLASHBACK ENDS...
- You are William, right? Chief Doctor told me you have malaria. Did you take your quinine for today yet?
- You are all good, William. You recovered from the malaria and being shot at neck. You are lucky, now I won't recommend you to go back the camp. Go home and rest.
- And he named me after the nurse that helped him survive - Clara.
- You can come over to my house after school today.
- So cool. I want to meet him now. He survived the Civil War. DId you know more than 360,000 soldiers died in that war?
- Hi, Clara. Is this your new friend?
- Hi, Grandpa. This is Mary.
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