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Cease Firing

Cease Firing by Mary Johnston is available here as the complete text, split into 2379 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Cease firing by Mary Johnston. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #52154.

40 chaptersComplete chronicle
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Cease Firing

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  1. Chapter I 55 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II Cape Jessamine 67 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III Vicksburg 63 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Chickasaw Bayou 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Fort Pemberton 61 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The River 61 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII Port Gibson 68 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII In Virginia 83 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX The Stonewall 73 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X The Bulletin 34 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI Prison X 72 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII The Siege 74 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII Across the Potomac 62 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Cave 58 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV Gettysburg 70 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI Back Home 69 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII Bread Cast on Water 74 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Three Oaks 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The Colonel of the Sixty-Fifth 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX Chickamauga 80 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI Missionary Ridge 113 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Road to Resaca 80 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII The Guns 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV The Wilderness 57 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV The Bloody Angle 37 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI Richmond 43 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Cold Harbour 32 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Little Pumpkin-Vine Creek 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Kennesaw 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX Thunder Run 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI Hunter’s Raid 38 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII Back Home 53 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII The Road to Washington 35 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV The Crater 41 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV The Valley 45 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI Cedar Creek 64 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII The Army of Tennessee 103 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII The Road to Winnsboro’ 74 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Beginning of the End 51 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL April, 1865 41 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #52154, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 600 minutes of reading across 2379 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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