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Updated: May 18, 2025
We walked on and a song sparrow followed us perching on the fence-rails and blessing us with his song. "I guess God has married us again," I declared. "I knew that you were walking on this road and I had to see you," said she. "People have been saying such terrible things." "What?" "They say your uncle found the pocketbook that was lost and kept the money.
Near a house I met Generals Howard and Logan, who explained that there was an intrenched battery to their front, with the appearance of a strong infantry support. I then walked up to the ridge, where I found General Morgan L. Smith. His men were deployed and engaged in rolling logs and fence-rails, preparing a hasty cover.
These orders were not absolutely enforced, though in person I set the example, and did not have a tent, nor did any officer about me have one; but we had wall tent-flies, without poles, and no tent-furniture of any kind. We usually spread our flies over saplings, or on fence-rails or posts improvised on the spot.
"No harm of you," he answered, and threw down the fence-rails that she might cross. "Come over to me, Maria." Putting her hands in his, she passed over the lowered fence, and then stood at arm's length looking into his face, which the moonlight had softened to a beauty that brought to her mind a carving in old ivory.
On the most inclement of those January nights the captain of a Virginia company, on whose property they happened to have halted, had allowed them to use the fence-rails for the camp fires.
"What's the matter?" asked the citizen. "Well, we are retreating." "Who is after you?" "Nobody but old Jim Breathed and his men, armed with fence-rails." Such was one of a dozen incidents in Breathed's life. Let me come to that which took place near Spottsylvania Court-House. Grant had moved, as we have seen, by his left flank toward that place.
Among others a soldier named Gant, of the 104th Ohio volunteers, presented a rebel battle-flag, which one of the officers stated to me was borne to the mouth of our cannon and planted there by a boy but seventeen years of age, who actually endeavor'd to stop the muzzle of the gun with fence-rails. He was kill'd in the effort, and the flag-staff was sever'd by a shot from one of our men. May '63.
Getty's division, when I found it, was about a mile north of Middletown, posted on the reverse slope of some slightly rising ground, holding a barricade made with fence-rails, and skirmishing slightly with the enemy's pickets.
I'd rather have the devil himself runnin' the next farm to me." The man in the field leaned his bare, brown arms on the top of the fence-rails and surveyed his friend with an indulgent smile. "I'm afraid he's closer than that to most of us already, Martin," he said, shaking his head. "Don't you worry about Joe Symonds. Why, we were boys at school together. There's no harm in him."
We were compelled at places to gather fence-rails, and to land wagons and haul wood from the interior to the boats; but I reached Memphis during the night of the 2d of October, and the other boats came in on the 3d and 4th.
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