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It served as a covering by night, and to keep a man warm and comfortable when travelling in cold and wet weather no better garment was ever made. I had a revolver and metal cartridge-box in my broad leather belt, also a good hunting-knife with strong buckhorn handle and a heavy blade about nine inches long.
Shure and whin you have your forty pound wait upon your back, forty rounds of lead and powdher in your cartridge-box, and twenty more in your pocket, three days' rations in your haversack, a musket on your shoulder, and army brogans on your throtters, you are just about the first man that I know of to take straight cuts." It was a close warm day near the middle of September.
The muscles of the rebel instantly relaxed; and Frank after unbuckling his cartridge-box, and fastening it to his own waist shouldered his musket, and ran boldly along the road. He traveled until almost daylight, without seeing any one, and then turned off into the woods.
'tain't no matter wedder de critter is a male or a fimmale; I'm a-goin' to bring it down from dar mighty quick," said Uncle Eb, fumbling with the cartridge-box which was attached to his broad leather belt, and preparing to load his rifle, while he cast murderous looks aloft. "No, you don't, then!" said Cyrus hotly.
When he returned to the place where he had left Woods, he found him with a musket on his shoulder, and a cartridge-box buckled about his waist, pacing up and down the deck. "I'm on watch, you see," he said, as Frank came up, "You will go on at midnight; so you had better go and turn in.
The dusty roads, the intolerable thirst, and the nauseous, tepid water, the blistered feet, the abraded hips, where the cartridge-box began to wear the flesh all these woes of the march were ignored in the one impulse to see the ground ahead, to note the first sight of the enemy.
But if you like you can tuck them into my cartridge-box behind there." "What, in there?" inquired snub-nose amazedly. "But ain't there gunpowder inside?" "Shove 'em in, they won't hurt it." "Won't it explode?" "Not unless a spark from your eyes catches it."
Of course they were not, but the star was their corps-badge, and every wagon, tent, hat, etc., had its star. Then the Twelfth-Corps men inquired what corps he belonged to, and he answered, "The Fifteenth Corps." "What is your badge?" At that time Blair commanded the corps; but Logan succeeded soon after, and, hearing the story, adopted the cartridge-box and forty rounds as the corps-badge.
Frank was already moving off quite as rapidly, but in the opposite direction. He plunged once more into the swamp, and returned to the spot where Jack had fallen. The battle was raging beyond; the troops had passed on; the ground was deserted. But there lay Winch's gun; with his cartridge-box beside it. Near by was Ellis's piece, abandoned where it had fallen.
Camp near Warrenton Stability of the Republic Measures, not Men, regarded by the Public Removal of McClellan Division Head-Quarters a House of Mourning A Pigeon-hole General and his West Point Patent-Leather Cartridge-Box Head-Quarter Murmurings and Mutterings Departure of Little Mac and the Prince Cheering by Word of Command The Southern Saratoga Rebel Regret at McClellan's Departure.
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