They leave all civility, take a cowardly gun and go to the neighbour's farmhouse, whose cousin is married to theirs, then murder the boy who could become a soldier, humiliate and renounce all sense of community, burn the home, steal the livestock, take any money from the victims and send the remaining souls, having lost all, on a foot journey into the unknown.
The passage refers to the Civil War in the 1800s in America.
( z1 refer :ARG0 ( z2 passage ) :ARG1 ( z3 war :name ( z4 name :op "Civil" :op "War" ) :time ( z5 date-entity :century 1800 ) :location ( z6 country :name ( z7 name :op "America" ) ) ) )