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I don’t actually see this as embarrassing (though being a confederate colonel is embarrassing af). I’d rather a kid kill me than kill a kid. I don’t know how likely it is to get out of the situation without anyone dying, but if someone’s got to, I’d prefer it be the adult, even if that’s me.
Clearly I would be a bad soldier.
The civil war, like all wars, was a truly horrifying place to serve regardless the side one found themselves on.