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Updated: June 18, 2025
At the same moment Patches and Joe lowered their hands, and Joe, unnoticed by either of the angry men, took a few stealthy steps toward his horse. Phil, deliberately folding his arms, stood looking at Patches. "I'll just call that bluff, you sneakin' calf stealer," he said coolly. "Now, unlimber that gun of yours, and get busy."
An officer who watched them the following day gallop onto the field, unlimber and start firing, told me that the way their fire covered that front was an absolutely uncanny sight.
'Spirit, replied the man at the paddle, 'you fairly corrupt me with your mendacity. Be off and unlimber yourself in the fog; I see it coming in.
"We've lost Lamme!" they shouted. "The Injuns got him, first fire." "Fetch up that cannon. Unlimber," Captain Bent was shouting. It was a small brass cannon, but had been so wrapped to protect it from the sand that the men could scarcely untie the knots. Away galloped Captain Bent, on his split-ear mule, to encourage the skirmishers' line. He had to be everywhere at once.
Wait until they get to their feet!" Hamlin cried eagerly. "Ah! there they come now unlimber." He saw only those black, indistinct figures, leaping out of the smoke, converging on the coach, their naked arms uplifted, their voices mingling in savage yells.
Imboden's battery came dashing back, and that officer, meeting Jackson, expressed with a profanity which was evidently displeasing to the general his disgust at being left without support. "I'll support your battery," was the brief reply; "unlimber right here." At this moment appeared General Bee, approaching at full gallop, and he and Jackson met face to face.
In an amazingly short time the work was done and the Italian field-batteries went tearing over the bridge at a gallop to unlimber on the opposite bank and send a shower of shrapnel after the retreating Austrians. Close behind the guns poured Carabinieri, Alpini, Bersaglieri, infantry of the line and squadron after squadron of cavalry riding under thickets of lances.
Then, when he goes to unlimber his music rack, it develops that a big vase of American Beauties is too near his elbow. He glares at 'em pettish. "Can't those things be taken out?" says he. "I detest heavy odors while I'm playin'!" So the flowers are carted off. Then some draperies just back of him must be pulled together, so he won't feel a draught.
Now they streamed back at the trot, all telling the tale how, before they could even unlimber, shells had come crashing into them. The column was a lingering tragedy. There were teams with only a limber and without a gun. And you must see it to know what a twistedly pathetic thing a gun team and limber without a gun is. There were bits of teams and teams with only a couple of drivers.
Oh, dear, dear!" Auntie, she just stands there gaspin' and tryin' to unlimber her lorgnette. As for Old Hickory, he watches the proceedings breathless for a second or so before he can make out what's happenin'. Then he roars: "Hey, stop 'em, somebody! Stop 'em, I say!" That listened to me like my cue, and while I've never been strong for mixin' in a muss, I jumped into this one lively.
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