True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-11-11
MTsCHLLANY.
NOTES FROM MY KNApsACK,
By g. II. ToBIN, LATE CAPTAIN LoUI-
sIANA VOLUNTEERS.

sIANA VOLUNTEERS.
CRUEL CoNDUcT. TO VOLUNTEERS
was on regimental parade the other day,
opposite Malamoros, and some how got
my company cOngtomerGted and pyOnaiS-
cuoatsig just mixed up. rather think |
did it TO bother LIT. Col. Forno.
The Colonel roared out to me--Captain
Tobn, why in thunder don't you speak
to yourcompany, and get them into line?o
answered him very modestly--" Pom
my conscience, Colonel, me and my com
pany isn't on spaking terms to-day."
The Colonel sloped, but the men say
ne growled out--"D-n that wild Irish
man, | can make nothing ont Of out him."
AS for making anything believe General
John M. M'Calla, I'd Auditor thinks the
same
The crael conduct was calling me
wild. / have been here Ia years, and
that's long enough to tame q regular live
grinning hyenn; besides Colonel Forno
1t. Gibbin and myself were said to be
three handsomest officers in the regiment
(Col. Walton's) and that alone should
have prevented the cruelty of calling me
Mild. think he was jealous of me be-
cause my whiskers and mustachcs were of
a less dirty red than his by half a shade.
The men called the three Of us the "Si-
amese Twins"
had some doubts as TO tho propriety
of the name, so | borrowed dictionary
flom Mr.. Wilson OF tours" (the only lite
rart. man in tho rooip1ont oxcort t,,,rcoI0
there found that taDinS means two-aswo
are three | think we should be called
trio juucto IN uRo, as Boatswain Chucks
observed of the rattan that he whaled the
sailors with--vidc, Peter Simple.
] hope there shall be no more such
cruelty practced towards us volunteers as
to call us wiId.--N q. Delta
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