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Updated: May 16, 2025
Old Dismukes, the bull-necked colonel of the Arkansans, lounged on a camp-cot. Both smoked cigars. The General asked me a number of idle questions and then said my prisoner had called me a good soldier. Old Dismukes smiled so broadly that I grew hot, believing the Yankee had told them of my tears. "Smith," said the Colonel, and then smoked and smiled again till my brow beaded, "tired?" "No, sir."
An instant his superb eye resented, but then he pleasantly did my bidding. "Suits me well; rather chance it with you than with those I've just left." "Easier to get away, you think?" I asked, with a worse frown than ever, as he stepped into the carry-all and took the lines. "No, not so easy; but those fellows are Arkansans, and they're in a bad humor with me."
The Confederacy had no better soldiers than the Arkansans fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond prudence. The border States' soldiers, Missourians, Kentuckians, and Marylanders, were the free lance of the South. They joined the fortunes of the South with the purest motives and fought with the highest ideals.
It affected the passengers very oddly. They were all kinds, these passengers, both first-cabin and second-cabin for the second-cabin passengers were allowed on the upper deck, although not to sleep. A great many were Southerners, including a number of long, lank, dark Arkansans, Georgians, Louisianans and Mississippians.
Their courage at Chickamauga is distinguished by showing the greatest per cent of killed and wounded in battle that has even been recorded, the charge of the Light Brigade not excepted, being over forty-nine per cent. What is said of the Tennesseeans is equally true of the Arkansans. Of a common stock and ancestry, they inherited all the virtues and courage of their forefathers.
Not yet enlisting, Bill went in as a spy for General Curtis, and took the dangerous work of going into "Pap" Price's lines, among the touch-and-go Missourians and Arkansans, in search of information useful to the Union forces.
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