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Alas! his only hope was to acknowledge his unhappy state, and stand, in the presence of his peers, confessed. The "Boys in Blue" generally preferred to camp in the open fields. The Confeds took to the woods, and so the Confederate camp was not as orderly or as systematically arranged, but the most picturesque of the two.
As mortified as I was at my inability to execute the orders of Colonel Rutherford, still I never laughed so much in my life at this ebullition of good feelings of the men, after all their toils and trials, especially as I would hear some one in the line call out as if in the last throes of exhaustion, 'Go on old dog, 'now you are on him, 'talk to him, old Ranger. What the Yankees thought of this fox chase at night in the valley, or what their intentions might have been is not known, but they would have been mighty fools to have tackled a lot of old 'Confeds' out on a lark at night."
They were nearly out of town they could see the long train hurriedly moving on the Staunton road. There was a sudden burst of musketry. A voice reached them from the street below. "Halt, you two Confeds running there! Come on over here! Rally to the colours!" There was a flash of the stars and bars, waved vigorously. "Oh, ha, ha!" cried Billy, "thar was some of us wasn't taken!
On the occasion of an entertainment at his house, in going amongst his guests, he approached a young lady, a great belle, completely surrounded by her admirers students, cadets, and some old "Confeds." He stopped and began to rally her on her conquests, saying: "You can do as you please to these other young gentlemen, but you must not treat any of my OLD SOLDIERS badly."
"Say good-bye to the Confeds," he shouted, "for by to-night, Wag, you'll be in the Union lines!" The dog barked gleefully; and jumped about on the platform of the tender, glad enough to have a little freedom again. Then Waggie was replaced in his master's pocket. Andrews, who was sitting on the right-hand seat of the cab, looked the picture of delight. "How was that for a starter?" he cried.
It is right odd, isn't it? but two or three of the prettiest women here are from that State. There is Mrs. Martin, sweet as a jacqueminot. I'd introduce you if her husband were here. Ohio! Well, we get used to it. I should have known the father and mother were corn-fed. I suppose you prefer the corn-feds to the Confeds. But there's homespun and homespun. You see those under the trees yonder?
He was not satisfied with the result of his conference. "You kin crow over your fellers, Yank," he shouted; "but you dassent come to the middle an' try me two falls outen three." Si immediately made toward him. They surveyed each other warily for a minute to get the advantages of the first clinch, when a yell came from the rebel side: "Scatter, Confeds! Hunt yer holes, Yanks!
We fired those trains, those stores, those sheltering sheds! And then we burned three transports on Pamunkey And shook the troops at White House from their beds! "Loud roars across our path the swollen Chickahominy 'Plunge in, Confeds! you were not born to drown. We danced past White Oak swamp, we danced past Fighting Joseph Hooker! We rode round McClellan from his sole to his crown!
"Come, sit down, stranger; 'Sit down an' share a soldier's couch, a soldier's fare. Not as I'm a sojer," he hastened to explain, "but thet's how it is in ther book. Say, old woman, kint ye kinder sker up some coffee fer we uns leastwise whut us Confeds call coffee?" Without much difficulty I induced Mrs. Brennan to draw her chair once more to the table, and I sat down beside her.
"You're a near-one at present speaking." "Philanthropist go hang the rest of the week I have spent getting the old Confeds together and having everything in shape for the unveiling of the statue out at the Temple of Arts. I tell you we are going to have a turn-out. General Clopton is coming all the way to make the dedication speech. Caroline is about to bolt and I have to steady her at off times.