Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-11
CHAPTER ".

Harvey Haley and Victor at once enrolled thei
names as members of Captain Carberry's Compa
ny, and were considered as mustered into service
There was no time lost in drilling, at least in thi
portion of the Confederate army for the service
was not one of holiday character, intended to de
light the eye by the regularity of the evoutions II
wheeling and marching. The movements Of th'
individual, the precision Of his step and his mill
tary carriage were considered as matters Of small
moment compared with his understanding of the
maneuvres to be executed and their rapid ane
prompt execution by the line, as whole. The
officer accustomed to a review Of the household
troops in Hyde Park, would have smiled at the
manner in which the ragged Confederate boys per
formed the evolutions required of them ; but the
veteran marshals of Napoleon, accustomed to SOL
diers in the field, would have been charmed at the
rapidity with which they wheeled into line, anc
their rapid and intelligent execution of the mos
complicated military maneuvres. Camps OF IN
struction, it is true, were established yet by fal
the larger portion of the soldiers of the Confede
racy went into active service without any military
training whatever. Notwithstanding this want o.
previous military instruction, no disaster was occa
stoned by it, and no defeat can be traced to this
cause for the soldiers had that confidence in
themselves in their leaders, in one another, and in
the justice of their cause, which made them in
yincible where success was otherwise than imposs
bic. They went into service with those habits Of
thought, and that steadfastness and fortitude o1
mind, which other soldiers acquire only by years Of
active and successful warfare.
Harvey Haley and Victor had enrolled theil
names but a few hours, when an orderly waited
upon Captain Carberry and placed in his hand
note from the Colonel of the -th Regiment, whom
for the purpose of concealing his real name, We
shall, in the following pages, speak Of as Colone
Giles. We are dealing with recent events and
with real characters and therefore, feel it due tc
delicacy to employ fictitious names for the parties
we introduce upon the scene.
Captain Carberry promptly summoned Victor
and notified him that he was wanted at the head
quarters of Colonel Giles.
The bue-eyed artillery officer was there, and
when Victor was ushered in, he introduced him te
the Colonel.
II hear good report of you, my young man,
said Colonel Giles, accompanying his words with
friendly scrutiny in which he seemed to take
the measure of the young soldier, mentally, NOR
ally and physically. "You have never been undel
fire before to-day"
''No sir," replied Victor quite modestly:
"Of course, you are not conscriptF observed
the Colonel, in an interrogative tone.
81 am not eighteen, quite, sir, replied Victor
"Well, my young friend, do you everfox-hunt?'
asked the Colonel, glancing at him with quie
smile in his eye.
Victor looked somewhat astonished at the alb
ruptness of the question, and would have though
the Colonel was quizzing him, but for the kindli
ness Of his manner and the presence of the young