Dogged Underdog (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Plot: Regional, frame story
- Time of Work: The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Small town modeled on Paducah, Kentucky
- Principal Characters: Judge Bill Priest, Captain Shelby Woodward, Miss Em Garrett, Captain Jasper Lawson, Harve Allen, Singin’ Sandy Riggs, Captain Braxton Montjoy
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Courage, Civil War, War, Veterans, Kentucky, Confederate States of America, Braggarts, Cowards or cowardliness
- Locales: Kentucky
The Story
Judge Priest and his friends are sitting on the judge's porch, talking as usual. Reminiscing about “the Big War,” Captain Shelby Woodward tells two contrasting stories that lead the men to discuss courage and cowardice. In the first, Miss Em Garrett defied a Union commander by refusing to surrender her Confederate flag. For four years, she wore it under her dress while she nursed the wounded of both armies, and eventually her courage and her kindness won salutes from the Union soldiers. Then Woodward describes his brigade's futile attempts to delay General...
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