They had to tread carefully for the first part of the way out to meet the enemy, guiding their horses through the maze of bloody bodies still lying where they fell after the Allied stroke that finally broke the Doms’ furious but uncoordinated effort to smash through the 3rd Pennsylvania and 1st Uxmal. Even down here, Lewis saw the occasional American corpse. Their death was no more tragic than that of their indigenous allies, but Lewis felt especially responsible for them. They’d followed him into a war they had no stake in before he made it so and died in a land unimaginably distant from
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