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An artillery officer, who was in Hamburg at the time of the disturbance I have just mentioned, told me that it was he who was directed to place two pieces of light-artillery before the gate of Altona. Having executed this order, he went to General Dupas, whom he found in a furious fit of passion, breaking and destroying everything within his reach.
The troops detailed for the service were the Fifth Infantry, then busy fighting Billy Bowlegs among the everglades of Florida, the Tenth Infantry, which was stationed at the forts in Upper Minnesota, the Second Dragoons, which was among the forces assembled at Fort Leavenworth, to be used, if necessary, in Kansas, at the requisition of Governor Walker, and Phelps's light-artillery battery, the same which so distinguished itself at Buena Vista, under the command of Captain Washington.
Shyster, who came up this morning, when you and the General were doing light-artillery practice on the lawn. Please let me go to my room." But the brute stood immovable. As I advanced, I heard him cock his musket. "Good God!" thought I, "this is no joke, after all. This stupid stable-man may have loaded his musket. What if it should go off?
An artillery officer, who was in Hamburg at the time of the disturbance I have just mentioned, told me that it was he who was directed to place two pieces of light-artillery before the gate of Altona. Having executed this order, he went to General Dupas, whom he found in a furious fit of passion, breaking and destroying everything within his reach.
This rebuke seeming to have engaged the suffrages of the company, he went on: "The boat division consisted of four battalions of infantry, two batteries of light-artillery, and a voltigeur company of the "Regiment de Marboeuf" to which I was then, for the time, attached as "Tambour en chef." What fellows they were the greatest devils in the whole army! They came from the Faubourg St.
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