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Her tears and sniffles had formed a little oasis of moisture on the pillow's white bosom so that the ugly stripe of the ticking showed through. She gazed down at the damp circle with smarting, swollen eyes, and another lump came up into her throat. Then she sat up resolutely, and looked about her. The leading lady had a large and saving sense of humor.
Two steamboats soon had steam up, and by nine A.M., General Pillow, with his brigade of three thousand five hundred men, was across the river and in the fight. Up to this time, the Federal force had driven the Confederates back from their camps, and threatened their annihilation, but Pillow's arrival stayed the retreat.
Colonel Baldwin, who was posted with two of his regiments, the Twenty-sixth Tennessee and Twenty-sixth Mississippi, in Pillow's portion of the intrenchments, while the rest of his brigade was west of Indian Creek, under Buckner, held the advance, the Twentieth Mississippi being added to his command, giving him a temporary brigade of three regiments.
On an open ridge commanding the pedregal General Valencia had planted guns which commanded the pedregal in the direction of San Augustin. On the morning of August 19th General Santa Anna ordered two battalions to move from Churubusco to San Antonio, Pillow's division of the American army having moved out from San Augustin on the road to Padierna, which was to be covered by Twiggs's division.
"Pillow's Trot Line." No Pay, and the Result. Gen. Pillow described. Columbus, Ky. Hard Work. Pillow in the Ditch. The Batteries. Torpedoes. Battle of Belmont. False Report. Troops cross. Untimely Joking. The Tide of Battle. A Charge. Cruelty. Victory. Why? Loss. Burial of the Dead. How Not to Kill. Accident. The Military Bishop.
There was a lot of grumbling coming from one corner, and after a while a light was struck. "Good lord," said somebody, "my pillow's crawling!" Bugs were cascading down the walls. Stajitch jumped to his feet, and began stamping hard. "Rivers of them," he yelled. Cutting and Whatmough were groaning about the heat, so we opened the door.
Pillow's presence as second was also a mistake. If these officers had been forced upon him and designated for that particular command, then he should have left Nashville with a small garrison under a trusty officer, and with the remainder of his force gone to Donelson himself. If he had been captured the result could not have been worse than it was.
"'I come here at General Pillow's orders, to pick up some Mexican silfer dollars, to buy ammunition in Mexico. "'Another of old blowhard Pillow's fool schemes, said he. 'I know old Pillow. I served with him in Mexico, when he dug his ditch on the wrong side of his fortification. He's probably going to do some-thing else with the dollars than buy ammunition.
"An' Cloke was only wonderin' this afternoon your pillow's slipped my dear, you mustn't lie that a-way just for the sake o' sayin' something, whether you wouldn't think well now of getting the Lashmar farms back, sir. They don't rightly round off Sir Walter's estate. They come caterin' across us more. Cloke, 'e 'ud be glad to show you over any day." "But Sir Walter doesn't want to sell, does he?"
In the night General Floyd and General Buckner met with General Pillow and his staff, at General Pillow's headquarters, to consider the situation.
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