After a few more months of military service Robbie was a free man again he was paid in full and left with honor he had 670$ to his name and everything he needed to get back home in Maine he bought a heavily discounted price horse from the army he also still had his rifle and all the ammunition he needed for the long ride from Atlanta to Maine after saying his goodbyes to his company and fellow soldiers he set out with three others who also lived in Maine there names where John Fredericks, Richard Knox, James Dingle, and William Fits who was a black man who used to be a slave but was freed on a raid in 1863 he joined up with the army and after a year of service not as a soldier but a loyal servant they signed him on as a high private and never was promoted again not because he was deserving of it because he wouldn't let them unfortunately for them the word was bound to get out that the soldiers who were coming home had a good amount of cash on them and they were shure to be targets.
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