Winn Dixie

Chapter Sixteen

" Littmus W Block was just a boy when the firing on Fort Sumter occurred," Miss Franny Block said as she started in on her story. "Fort Sumter?" I said. "It was the firing on Fort Sumter that started the war," said Amanda. "Okay," I said. I shrugged. "Well, Littmus was fourteen years old. He was strong and big, but he was still just a boy. His daddy, Artley W Block, had already enlisted, and Littmus told his mama that he could not stand by and let the South get beat, and so he went to fight,

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