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catherine_catty — 28.07.2018 Решила перечитать "Приговоренные к бессмертию" Свиридова, роман об Альберте Парсонсе, анархисте. Через десяток страниц начала чесать в затылке ибо картина, нарисованная Свиридовым, показалась уж очень фальшивой. Совок-совок-совок. Не выдержала, пошла проверять информацию. В книге, кроме всего прочего, подробно рассказывается как в 13 лет Парсонс сбежал на войну против рабовладельцев (прям так и сказано), как он храбро сражался в рядах кавалерийского полка северян, как был отличным наездником и стрелком.

"Мы с тобой, старик, пели о Джоне Брауне, когда шли в атаку. Помнишь штурм Ричмонда? Кто бы мог предложить, что лучший стрелок и лихой наездник станет редактором".
"Наш кавалерийский полк стоял рядом. Ребята дрались как львы! Однако, первыми с песней о Джоне Брауне в столицу мятежников вступил негритянский полк".



Одна строчка из биографии Парсонса: "In the Civil War he served as a member of the Confederate Army under the commanded by his brother, Major General William Parsons." Вот за это я советскую власть ненавижу. За беспардонное вранье.

Автобиография Парсонса: When the Slave-holding rebellion broke out in 1861, I though quite small, and but 13 years old joined a local volunteer military company called the "Lone Star Greys." My first military exploit was on the passenger steamer Morgan where we made a trip out into the Gulf of Mexico and intercepted & assisted in the capture of U. S. Gen. Twigg's army which had evacuated the Texas frontier forts and came to the sea-coast at Indianapolis to embark for Washington D. C.

My first military exploit was a "run-away" trip on my part for which I received an ear-pulling from my guardian when I returned. These were stirring "war times" & as a matter-of-course my young blood caught the infection. I wanted to enlist in the rebel army & join Gen. Lee in Virginia, but my guardian, Mr. Richardson, proprietor of the News a man of 60 years, & the leader of the Secession movement in Texas, ridiculed the idea, on account of my age & size & ended by telling me that "its all bluster anyway. It will be ended in the next sixty days & I'll hold in my hat all the blood thats shed in this war." This statement from one whom I thought knew all about it, only served to fix all the firmer my resolve to go & go at once, before too late. So I took a "French leave" and joined an artillery company at an improvised fort at Sabine Pass Texas, where Capt. Richard Parsons an elder brother was in command of an infantry company. Here I exercised in infantry drill and served as "powder monkey" for the canoneers. My military enlistment expired in 18 months when I left Fort Sabine and joined Parson's Texas Cavalry Brigade then on the Missippi river.

My brother Maj. Gen. W. H. Parsons (who during the war was by his soldiers invested with the sobriquet "Wild Bill") was at that time in command of the entire cavalry outposts on the West Bank of the Mississippi river from Helena to the mouth of the Red River. His cavalrymen held the advance in every movement of the Trans-Missippi army, from the defeat of the Federal General Curtis on White River to the defeat of Gen. Banks army on Red River, which closed the fighting on the west side of the Mississippi. I was a mere boy of 15 when I joined my brother's command at the front on White river, & was afterwards a member of the renowned McInoly Scouts under Gen. Parson's orders which participated in all the battles of the Curtis, Canby & Banks Campaigns.

Причем Свиридов совершенно точно эту автобиографию читал, потому что в романе разговор Парсонса и Ричардсона есть, фраза "Не пройдет и 60 дней, как война закончится и люди будут кланяться каждой пролитой капли крови" присутствует.

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