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"Because Government creameries are for those who can't afford to send their stuff to market, or make their cheese on their farms." "Ah, that's the worst of being large farmers, it entails so much work. By Jove! Iredale doesn't work like we 'moss-backs' have to, and he's made a fortune. I guess if there were a Mrs. George Iredale she'd have a bully time. No cheese- or butter-making, eh, sis?"
Before I had time to collect my thoughts, we were startled by these words, coming from the same man that had asked the original question: "You had better not hesitate, for we have an idea who you are, and should it prove that we are correct, it will be the worse for you." "'Who do you think we are? I inquired." "'Horse thieves and moss-backs, was the reply."
From this speech of his came the celebrated saying of "moss-backs." A part of my Corps fought under that gallant General, A. J. Smith, in the Banks campaign up the Red River, and there is no doubt but that his generalship and the fighting of the two Divisions of the Sixteenth Corps saved that Army from a great defeat.
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