The Guns of Bull Run
The Guns of Bull Run by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1032 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #3653.
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The Guns of Bull Run
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- Chapter I Chapter 1
- Chapter II Chapter 2
- Chapter III Chapter 3
- Chapter IV Chapter 4
- Chapter V Chapter 5
- Chapter VI Chapter 6
- Chapter VII Chapter 7
- Chapter VIII Chapter 8
- Chapter IX Chapter 9
- Chapter X Chapter 10
- Chapter XI Chapter 11
- Chapter XII Chapter 12
- Chapter XIII Chapter 13
- Chapter XIV Chapter 14
- Chapter XV Chapter 15
- Chapter XVI Chapter 16
This edition of The Guns of Bull Run by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #3653, divided into 16 chapters and 1032 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.
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