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"And now tell me something," said Stephen. "How did you burn our sap-rollers?" This time the Colonel stopped, and gave himself up to hearty laughter. "Why, that was a Yankee trick, sure enough," he cried. "Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket." "We thought you used explosive bullets." The Colonel laughed again, still more heartily.
"And now tell me something," said Stephen. "How did you burn our sap-rollers?" This time the Colonel stopped, and gave himself up to hearty laughter. "Why, that was a Yankee trick, sure enough," he cried. "Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket." "We thought you used explosive bullets." The Colonel laughed again, still more heartily.
"And now tell me something," said Stephen. "How did you burn our sap-rollers?" This time the Colonel stopped, and gave himself up to hearty laughter. "Why, that was a Yankee trick, sure enough," he cried. "Some ingenious cuss soaked port fire in turpentine, and shot the wad in a large-bore musket." "We thought you used explosive bullets." The Colonel laughed again, still more heartily.
All ranks worked hard, especially at engineering, in which there was such a dearth of officers that Grant ordered every West Pointer to do his turn with the sappers and miners as well as his other duty. The real sap-rollers came to grief when an ingenious Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off.
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