[
 {
  "chunk": 75,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A general, half-mocking, asks a colonel whether his much-praised young artillery captain would like to put a gun in a narrow notch facing twelve enemy guns; the colonel defends his man, and the general says it is the only place.",
  "predicament": "A superior teases someone about the courage they boasted of in a subordinate, then turns the tease into a deadly order."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 76,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Among dead horses and men in the notch, the colonel points out there is room for one gun against twelve; the general ironically says the captain is a battery in himself, and the angry colonel cannot retort.",
  "predicament": "Someone sees a superior sending a subordinate into hopeless danger out of spite, and their position forbids them to object."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 77,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The young captain rides up and is told to bring up a gun and engage the twelve; after a silence, he asks with effort whether the enemy guns are near the house.",
  "predicament": "Someone ordered to open fire on a target realises, with a sinking heart, exactly where that target is."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 78,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Pale and hoarse, he asks whether the order is imperative; the general rides off without a sign, the mortified colonel nearly arrests him, and then the captain brings up a gun and opens fire.",
  "predicament": "Someone ordered to do something that will destroy what they love asks whether it is truly required, and is met with silence."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 79,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "A hopeless duel of one gun against twelve begins; the gunners concentrate on the gun in front of the house, shells break into its roof, and the colonel remarks on the captain's reluctance to obey.",
  "predicament": "Someone who hesitated before an order now carries it out with terrible thoroughness while the onlookers remember only their hesitation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 80,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The colonel asks that the captain's hesitation be kept quiet; he refuses the infantry permission to silence the guns, as the general forbade it, and an adjutant begins to hint that the captain is a Southerner.",
  "predicament": "Someone begins to suspect that a subordinate's deadly order was never about the enemy at all, but a private grudge."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 81,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The adjutant reveals that the general once camped near the captain's home, there was trouble over the captain's wife and a complaint, and the general was transferred; the indignant colonel goes to withdraw the gun himself.",
  "predicament": "Someone learns an order was a superior's revenge on a subordinate's family, and resolves to stop it on their own authority."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 82,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The colonel races down the hill with his retinue to the notch, where the sight appals them.",
  "predicament": "Someone hurries to call off an order they now know was malicious, afraid of what they will find when they arrive."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 83,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Four guns lie wrecked in the notch; the half-naked, bloodied survivors work the fifth like madmen, sponging it with their comrades' blood, each man replaced as he falls.",
  "predicament": "People carrying out a hopeless order keep at it with mad devotion, each one stepping in as the one before falls."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 84,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "Riding over the dead to the gun, the colonel stops the firing; a blackened, fiendish figure turns to him and obeys his signal to withdraw. It is the captain.",
  "predicament": "Someone steps into a scene of carnage to end it, and finds the person they sent there changed almost beyond recognition."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 85,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The enemy stops firing too, having long since retreated; the brigade camps on the enemy's ground and the colonel's staff settle comfortably in the shattered plantation house, until an orderly reports something wrong in the cellar.",
  "predicament": "Victors settle comfortably into the home they wrecked, until someone uneasy reports a presence hidden below them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 86,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "In the cellar they find a man clasping a dead woman and a dead baby, killed by a shell that broke through the floor above.",
  "predicament": "Someone discovers that the destruction they ordered has killed a mother and child hidden where no one had looked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 87,
  "story": 6,
  "summary": "The man raises his blackened face and calmly says the house is his, the dead are his wife and child, and he is the captain who shelled it.",
  "predicament": "Someone forced to obey an order has destroyed their own home and family with their own hands, and sits with the dead."
 }
]