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For a moment he pulled so hard that it was doubtful whether the bateau would be hauled ashore, or Secesh drawn into the deep water. "Hold on tight, my boy! Pull for your life!" shouted the soldier, highly excited by the probable success of his philanthropic efforts. "Save me! Save me!" groaned Tom, as he tugged, or seemed to do so, at the bayonet.
The intelligent farmer in the ranks, who has learned his superiority to 'Secesh, as a soldier, and who knows himself to be superior to any Southern in all matters of information and practical creative power, looks with scorn at the worn-out fields, wasteful agriculture, and general shiftlessness of the natives, and says, with a contemptuous laugh: 'We will get better crops out of the land, and manage it in another fashion, when we settle down here. Not less scornfully does the mechanic look down on the clumsy, labor-wasting contrivances of the negro or negro-stupified white man, and agree with his mate that 'these people will never be of much account until we take them in hand.
But the feeling was greatly changed when Horace joined the Southern ranks, saying "he didn't care how much he played Secesh when everybody knew he was a good Union man, and his father was going to be a general." After this there was no trouble about raising volunteers on the rebel side.
"Did you know, Abe, I've a brother in the rebel army?" "I did not know. I have heard you have one somewhere in the south." "Yes, you have heard Jack twit me about my secesh brother. And I have been obliged to own he was a traitor.
There no three "damned secesh" might stop on a corner in broadest sunlight and pass the time of day. There the "rebel" printing-presses stood cold in dust and rust.
"'Where am I? Who are you? I asked, and he replied: 'Who be I? Why, I'm Jack Jennin's, the rarinest, red-hottest secesh thar is in these yere parts, so the rebs thinks; but 'twixt you and me, boy, I'm the tallest kind of a Union got a piece of the old flag sewed inside of my boots, and every night before sleepin' I prays Lord gin Abe the victory, and raise Cain generally in t'other camp, and forgive Jack Jennin's for tellin' so many lies, and makin' b'leeve he's one thing, when you know and he knows he's t'other.
"Hannar Amander said dat shouldn't trouble him, our pay would be entered up in our 'ternal count. "And den he gab me dis sword and said I should keep it and sell it, and dat would bring me suffin'. And he gab Susan Matildar his penknife. De Secesh am 'quiring about de sword. I'd like to keep it, to mind de young man by, but we've all got him here," said the old man, pointing to his heart.
"Are you satisfied now that these are not the Union boys they pretended to be?" "I am," answered Mr. Truman, while his wife looked daggers at them. "If they are not Secesh, how does it come that their friends recognize them so quickly? I suppose you are Price's men?" he added, turning to the officer. "Lieutenant, send in two or three fellows to take these guns and sound the prisoners.
Yet these were estrays from the fiery army which has given our generals so much trouble, "Secesh prisoners," as a bystander told us. A talk with them might be profitable and entertaining. But they were tabooed to the common visitor, and it was necessary to get inside of the line which separated us from them. A solid, square captain was standing near by, to whom we were referred.
In the pillaging of the armoirs, they seized a pink flounced muslin of Miriam's, which one officer placed on the end of a bayonet, and paraded round with, followed by the others who slashed it with their swords crying, "I have stuck the damned Secesh! that's the time I cut her!" and continued their sport until the rags could no longer be pierced.
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