Identifier: knapsackrifleorl00patr (find matches)
Title: Knapsack and rifle; or, Life in the Grand Army; war as seen from the ranks. Pen pictures and sketches of camp, bivouac, marches, battle-fields and battles, commanders, great military movements, personal reminiscences and narratives of army life ... Also, a complete chronology of the war, and a digest of the pension laws of the United States ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Patrick, Robert W Williams, E. B
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Anecdotes
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, J.K. Gill & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hab to pay dat five cents in de day o judgment! No mathematical explanations could make old Dinahsee her comical mistake, and, giving her the extra fivecents to enable her to realize a quarter on two pies at tencents a piece, I left her in a brown study, trying tomake out how there could be anything queer about it. We had strict orders not to forage on the surroundingcountry, but it was commonly understood among theboys that if these oiders were disobeyed they would notbe shot for a militarj crime. Two men in our ranks,besides Blinn and Brixy, became famous for theirforaging exploits. The boys had grown weary of their regulation fare,salt horse, and wei*e longing for some fresh pork. Where to obtain it ? was a very. serious question.Very few of the inhabitants were left in possession oftheir homes; the ground had been fought over andcamped upon by both armies, and what few houses andout-buildings remained were strongly guarded by adetail from headquarters. THE =^ PUDL. - ASTOR, fNOX i
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KNAPSACK AND BIFLE. 311 Foraging was, for several reasons, a very difficultmatter, and unless one possessed a venturesome spiritthat could carr)^ him away for a long distance from camp,and brave the danger of capture by guerillas that werethick in that part of the country, all idea of fresh pork,or even a stray chicken, had to be abandoned. Somehow, Jim, one of the champion foragers, hadlearned there was a solitary pig at a farm-house gomedistance away, but a very strong guard was detailed, andthe house was the quarters of an officer. How to getthat porker was then in order, for Jim was boundthat it should supply his company with fresh meat.After Availing for several days, and after a ver)^ carefulsurvey of the ground, and seeking a favorable oppor-tunity, the night was selected, a moonless one, and theparty set out. It consisted of Jim and Sam, two kindredspirits. Sam, by the way, was Jims pupil, and an aptone he was. Jim had selected a time when the guard on the housewas a comparati

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