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Here Sam Lyle and Joe Chester, of the College company, detailed as a provost-guard, cared for me until the next day, when another stage-ride of thirty-six miles brought me to Lexington and home. With the aid of a crutch I was soon able to get about, but four months passed before I was again fit for duty, and from the effects of the wound I am lame to this day.
The same high wind still prevailed, and, fearing the consequences, I bade him go in person to see if the provost-guard were doing its duty.
Jealousy was still felt towards even the officers of colored regiments, and any difficult contingency would be apt to bring it out. The white soldiers, just from ship-board, felt a natural desire to stray about the town; and no attack from an enemy would be so disastrous as the slightest collision between them and the black provost-guard.
He would relieve the black provost-guard by a white one, if I approved, which I certainly did. But he said that he felt bound to give the chief opportunities of action to the colored troops, which I also approved, and which he carried out, not quite to the satisfaction of his own eager and daring officers.
The rain was falling heavily, and, our wagons coming up, we went into camp there, and had Rhett and General Blair to take supper with us, and our conversation was full and quite interesting. In due time, however, Rhett was passed over by General Slocum to his provost-guard, with orders to be treated with due respect, and was furnished with a horse to ride. Kilpatrick was on his right front.
As we approached the bridge, there was confusion and altercation ahead. The people were borne back upon me. Curses and threats ensued. "It is the Provost-guard," said a fugitive, "driving back the boys." "Go back!" called a voice ahead. "I'll blow you to h ll, if you don't go back! Not a man shall cross the bridge without orders!" The stragglers were variously affected by this intelligence.
The Provost-Guard had been making one of its periodical cleaning-ups of Nashville, and driving out the obnoxious characters. Several of these had tried to renew their acquaintance by offering drinks from well-filled bottles, but they were sternly repulsed, and Shorty quietly knocked one persistent fellow down with a quick whirl of his gun-barrel.
I started off, took three more men than the Sergeant had; went to the first fence I could find, and that was about two miles for the corps-teams had made clean work loaded my men and myself, and started back. The Provost-Guard was at the old place; I was bound to pass them squarely. "'Captain, said the Sergeant, 'we have orders to stop all parties carrying rails. "'By whose orders?
He at once commanded the party to stop pillaging, and left a man in charge of the house, to protect her until the regular provost-guard should be established. I then asked her if the regular guard or sentinel had been as good to her.
After the battle of Antietam, for the express purpose of remedying it, McClellan appointed General Patrick Provost-Marshal with a strong provost-guard, giving him very extended powers, and permitting nobody, of whatever rank, to interfere with him. The Confederate army suffered from straggling quite as much, perhaps, as ours, but in a somewhat different way.
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