Among The Dead and The Living

By: Brony203

The Fifty-fourth did well and nobly. . . . They moved up as gallantly as any troops could, and with their enthusiasm they deserved a better fate.-Edward L. Pierce, correspondent for the New York Tribune.
to Governor John A. Andrew, July 22, 1863

On July 18, 1863, Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment were going to capture Fort Wagner from the confederate. they shot the graybacks with their Springfield model 1861 and stabs them with their bayonets. Robert was shot down by one of the graybacks. Once they were on top of the fort. the confederate fired their Pattern 1853 Enfield and their cannons which meet their fates. 1,515 Union soldiers were killed, captured, or wounded in the assault of July 18, 315 men were left from the 54th after the battle, Twenty-four later died of wounds, fifteen were captured, and fifty-two were reported missing after the battle and never seen again, and Confederate casualties numbered 174, the total amount of solders killed, wounded, missing, and left the battle were 2,085 in all

Twilight Got up early in the afternoon to see her friends at a slumber party at 7:00 at Fluttershy's house, as Twilight looks at the time and it was 5:00. "Sweet Celestia, it's 5:00?" Twilight said. "I better go to fluttershy's house right now!" Just as she was about to go the door, Twilight forgot to tell Spike, her #1 assistant about the party. "Spike!" A purple dragon look downstairs and said, "Yeah Twilight?" "I'm going to fluttershy's right now." Spike approves and said, "OK, I'll make sure the house will be nice and clean when you come back, OK?" "OK, see you at 12:00"

Robert slowly opened his eyes and sees a tree with the sounds of birds singing, just as he was about to close his eyes, a soft sound called to him in what it appears to be a female voice. "Umm, m-m-mister, are you alright?" Then suddenly he opened his eyes and got up painfully and what he saw astounded the colonel, a yellow horse with pink hair and wings looks at the col. in a bowing position as if it was afraid of the colonel's appearance and he thought to himself, "A pony, why is there a pony in the middle of the war at this time?" As he was about to get up, a sharp pain came from his neck but was better now. Robert stands up and what spooks the hell out of him is that the pony spoke, "Oh dear, are you alright?" His eyes were widened because he never see or heard of a talking pony before, now his brain is filled with so many questions like, "Where I'm I, What is this place, how the hell did this pony spoke, what kind of species is that thing is, What happened to my troop?" and the number one question on his mind is, "Am I dead?"