Personal Narrative: My First Cold War

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One day I was taking the cow back to the barn until I saw four soldiers on horses walking by the farm, they were a holding Confederacy Flag. I was staring at them until they left. After a while, I began to feed the chickens. Momma was calling my name, “ Casey, Casey come get this basket so you can put some vegetables in it.” “Ok mama.” When I got to the storage room, I heard a strange noise, I was so terrified. I look at the corn stocks in the corner, I saw an eyeball. I ran out of there so fast, I lost my breath. When I made it to the house, I was standing on the wall catching my breath.
It was dinner time, when my grandpappy was praying , I was looking out of the window. After dinner was over I took some bread back to the storage room to

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