Miss Franny tells Amanda and Opal that Littmus was only a 14-year-old boy when the Civil War began. Littmus enlisted and left his mother and three sisters behind to be a war hero.
He was miserable. Hungry all the time, covered with lice and fleas, Littmus spent his days and nights being shot at. When the war was over, he walked back home and found that there was no home to greet him. The Yankees had burned down his home, and his sisters had died of typhoid fever. His mother was also dead, and his father had died on the battlefield......
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