. . y recalls Bridgeport, the leading thought is of a long continueddesire to eat something, akin to the yearning of the children ofIsrael for the flesh-pots of Egypt. One day a flag of truce appeared on the Confederate side ofthe river. Its object was to obtain permission for a lady and heiservants to pass through the lines, enroute to her home in Ten-nessee, with the body of her husband, who had been killed in oneof the battles in Virginia. This reasonable request was grantedand the party crossed the river in boats. The distress of
. . y recalls Bridgeport, the leading thought is of a long continueddesire to eat something, akin to the yearning of the children ofIsrael for the flesh-pots of Egypt. One day a flag of truce appeared on the Confederate side ofthe river. Its object was to obtain permission for a lady and heiservants to pass through the lines, enroute to her home in Ten-nessee, with the body of her husband, who had been killed in oneof the battles in Virginia. This reasonable request was grantedand the party crossed the river in boats. The distress of the ladyin her affliction aroused the sympathies of all who witnessed thescene. She was permitted to continue her journey by rail, afteran officer had exercised the legitimate and proper precaution ofopening the coffin, to aseertaiu that it contained nothing con-traband of war. The soldiers put in a good deal of their leisure time in fash-ioning rings, charms and other trinkets from clam and musselshells which were found in abundance in the river. Many of 240. JAMES A. GAKFIIBRIGADIER-GENERA I , ; jack and the okdkrly. 241 these articles were very pretty, evincing no small degree of of them were sent to friends at home as mementoes. Captain Whitbeck, of Company H, Sixty-fifth, had pickednp at Mooresville a burly negro named Jack, and taken him alongas his servant. He was a great strapping fellow, and as faithfulas a watch-dog. The company desk, with all the books and pa-|>ers, was kept in the captains tent, and the orderly sergeant had,of necessity, free access. One day two mischievous members ofthe company took Jack aside and told him very seriously that thestripes on the arms of the orderly were worn as marks of dis-grace, indicating the number of times he had been convicted oftheft, and that he must watch him closely and see that he tooknothing from the captains tent. Jack had no idea of rank andtook it all as truth. Soon afterward the orderly had occasi
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