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Updated: June 12, 2025
"You say this prisoner was promoted for capturing a rebel flag at Chickamauga?" asked Maj. Truax, who was perfectly aware of the fact, but wanted to emphasize it upon the others. "Yes," said Lieut. Bowersox, only too glad of the opportunity. "I saw it all. Gallant a thing as was ever done. Simply magnificent. Thrills me to think about it. I tell you that fellow's a soldier all the way through.
"Put your views in the form of a motion, that they may be properly considered by the meetin'," said the imperturbable president. "Well, I motion that we stop talkin' and commence doin' " "Do you suggest that a committee be appointed for that purpose?" "Yes, anything." And the chairman appointed Bowersox, Bott, and Folgum such a committee.
The man they called Bowersox had disappeared from the group around the spokesman. Farnham turned and saw him a little distance away directly behind him. He had repossessed himself of his pistol and held it cocked in his hand. "What do you want of our names?" the spokesman asked. Farnham did not again lose sight of Bowersox. It occurred to him that the interview might as well be closed.
Bowersox, with the severity proper to a vindicator of justice, "shows that it was a very flagrant breach of the essentials of discipline, and deserves stern treatment.
The morning came, with their money all right, as they assured themselves by careful examination immediately after reveille. As they fell in under Lieut. Bowersox to start, their comrades crowded around to say good-by, give additional messages for the home-folks, and directions as to their money, and what they wanted bought.
"Pardon me, Lieutenant I should perhaps say Captain" interrupted Lieut. Bowersox, with much sweetness of manner, "but the most of us are familiar with your views as to the inferiority of the discipline of the Western Armies to that of the Army of the Potomac and European armies, so that we need not take up the' time of the court with its reiteration. What farther happened?" "Nothing.
"Attention, company! Forward March!" shout ed Lieut. Bowersox. They swept down the mountain-side, over the next eminence, and so onward. At every crest that they raised the uproar of the battle became louder, the crash of musketry and the thunder of the can non more continuous.
After they had scrambled into the old freight cars and stowed them selves away, Si looked over his squad and counted it. "Have you got them all aboard, Sergeant?" in quired Lieut. Bowersox. "I've got the right number, sir," Si answered, saluting; "and if they ain't all the same men they're just as good." "All right," returned the officer.
Need somebody with a good strong voice, too, to call off the names.... Woosh's you'd git them things up to the house soon 's you kin, Otho. Ma's in a hurry fer 'em." "Betchy two cents," said Brother Littell to his clerk, Clarence Bowersox, "'at Abel Horn 'll be Santy Claus." "Git out!" doubted Clarence. "'Ll, you see now.
"I help?" returned Shorty despairingly. "You'll need a West Point perfessor and a hay-press to git that crowd into soldier shape. I ain't once." "Here, Sergeant," ordered Lieut. Bowersox, "line the men up, count them, learn their names, and give them a little preliminary drill, while I go to Headquarters and see the Colonel again about our transportation." "Fall in, boys; fall in," commanded Si.
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