The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1902-10-17
FOUND AMONG The PR!VATES.
BY j. l.. STRAIN.
Chapter XIV.

Maheie the soiu'cIo lU inc dTuly WOu!u
have died with the blues or scme
ether Lind Of inconsistencies. But
fortunately every command was pre-
vid; d with the essential sway" who,
moro than any one else, prolonged
the 'trugylh and made manifest the
efficiency of our troops. Do'ph Faat
was the fun maker Of our command
in both company and regimental.
lie had cknasno for every man
and horse in the command. Some
Of these names were unbeard IF or
unpronouncable before Dolph began
to utilize them. Then they soon
entered into the army vocabulary and
their possesso.s carried them to the
end OF the war or throus shout life.
1t would take vollme of books to
contain the commorest ofthcse ,kes,
some Of which have never leen pub
lished while others have. A few of
them might help to male read able
letter in this connection and keep
these "reminiscences from becomin 2
monotonous.
At one time nicely dressed young
man, who no doubt thought himself
too good to so to the war, rode up
to depot about the time a train
filled With Confcderatcs arrived. The
soldiers began to plague him with all
kinds of questions aud pranhs, ask
ing him his age, occupation, man
nels aud object Of life and all such
nonsense. One old fellow keptwulk-
ing round him with an eye intent on
his person and viewing him from
head to foot. This venerable son Of
mars would 60 round the yeuNg fel.
low making an .elliptical course with
each revolution, VIII. n at last he cried
out: "Mister, wuz you raised bout
here or did you come outer drove"
A citizen with long hair, long
whiskers, big mustacEe and grand
imperial had his head sticking out at
o window in Richmond. The hu.
man face was so completely hid by
the hairy covering al out, around al
under it that it seemed to be an im.
mense mass of hair sticking cut of ,r
pending f,om the window. A ragged
soldier who had lost his Ii, rse was
passing and seeing tue ind.stinct cut
line of human face called on one q
his comrades and said: "Jlke, I've
found my old horse at last" Wharf
replied Jake. Don't you see his
tail sticking outer that window
yondes? / could swear to that tail
snywhar. But how tie old crittcr
ever got up thar l can't tell Its
only necessary to say here the tail
was Immediately Withdrawn from the
window.
In one Of the fights Gary $ Brigade
had on the Darbytown read in tie
fall of 1864 the cavalry werc Dis.
mounted and went at it IN old fash
ioned infantry style as they usually
did along the liLes at that time.
Under very heavy fire from the
enemy our men were ordered to "lie
down" and protect themselves as
bet they could. In front Of Frank
Millwood was stump. 1t. G. II.
Jeter told him to get behind it. After
the fight was over ard Frank dis
covered that several minnie balls
had penetrated the stump he said tc
1t, Jeter: "I.'s well you told me to
get behind that stump, Lieutenant,
for if you hadn't Id never got to
see the cooling ground again.
On one occasion two of eur scouts
were at Mrs. Coles, near Barhams
vile. 1t was cold dark night in
January, 1868. The house was sur.
rounded by Yankee cavalry. Ad
joining the room in which they were
sleeping up stairs just under tie
window was the piazza cover and Q
chimney run up between the dining
room and the house. The house wal
surrounded before they knew any
thing about it, and they just stepped
out in their night clothes on the tor
of the piazza and round behind tn,
chimney and stayed there until
search Of the house satisfied tie fed
efAls that the rebels had lefs. A,
soon as the raiders got away tn,
scouts returned to their bed and re
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