The General.

The General was actually a photograph portrait I found in our dirt cellar after digging it out some. The house was built somewhere around 1882 and showed some wear and tear. Nowhere did it show more age than in that old cellar. Over a hundred years of ashes had been shoveled out of the furnace and tossed to the right, eventually all but closing off about a third of the cellar. For an adventurous ten-year-old this was a challeng...