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You know we'd follow you through hell, sir; and if you could just manage it so's we could follow you through White Oak Swamp " Cleave passed the arm of the creek separating the 65th from the rest of the brigade, and asked of Winder from the first troops beyond the screen of trees. "General Winder has ridden down to the bridge to see General Jackson."
I air a-goin' to plant this here flag on that thar bank, jest the same as if 't was a hop pole in Christianna's garden!" Fulkerson fought on grimly by the stone wall; Garnett and the other Stonewall regiments struggled with desperation to hold the centre, the artillery thundered from every height. The 65th touched the earthwork.
From the village behind them burst the braying of their own bugles headquarters summoning, baggage train on the Staunton road summoning. The sound was shrill, insistent. The shapes in the mist grew larger. There came a flash of rifles, pale yellow through the drift as of lawn. Zzzzzz! Zzzzzz! sang the balls. The twenty men of the 65th proceeded to save themselves.
The 65th was acquiring a reputation, and that in a brigade whose deeds had been ringing, like a great bell, sonorously through the land. "The good conduct of the 65th " "The 65th, reliable always " "The 65th with its accustomed courage " "The disciplined, intelligent, and courageous 65th " "The gallantry of the 65th " The light strengthened; pickets were reached.
The column swerved to one side of the broad road, and the Rockbridge Artillery passed a vision of horses, guns, and men, wrapped in a dun whirlwind and disappearing in the blast. They were gone in thunder through the heat and haze. The 65th Virginia wondered to a man why it had not chosen the artillery.
One only, the body of a young soldier of the 2d Virginia, a brother of the colonel of the 65th, the army was carrying with it. The brother, wounded himself, had begged the body. At the first village where the army halted, he would get a coffin and lay the boy in a grave he could mark. His mother and sister could visit it then. Permission was given. It lay now in an ambulance, covered with a flag.
His overcoat went first, then his roll of blanket. Finally he gazed a moment, sorrowfully enough, at his knapsack, then dropped it, too, quietly, in a fence corner. Close up, men close up! A wind arose and blew the dust maddeningly to and fro. In the Colour Company of the 65th a boy began to cough, uncontrollably, with a hollow sound. Those near him looked askance.
If you make $25 a week for 10 years, you will get a little over $23 a month from the Government as long as you live after your 65th birthday. If you should die before you begin to get your monthly checks, your family will get a payment in cash, amounting to 31/2 cents on every dollar of wages you have earned after 1936.
This news flew through the camp in a moment; the whole army was out; every eye flashed vengeance: but, by the timely interference of the commander-in-chief, and the officers in general, the men were calmed, and the mischief stopped. In the next general orders my name appeared as Ensign in his majesty's 65th regiment, with many flattering encomiums by the commander-in-chief.
The colonel of the 65th rode forward. There was a minute's parley, then he turned, "Sixty-fifth! It isn't a fox hunt it's a bear hunt! 'General Johnston to the 65th' " He broke off and waved forward the aide-de-camp beside him. "Tell them, Captain Washington, tell them what a terror to corn-cribs we're going after!" The aide, a young man, superbly mounted, laughed, raised his voice. "Sixty-fifth!
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