. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. on the clothes line of a thrifty house-wife, after a two weeks washing. It was a most ludicrousscene and the boys cheered them on to redoubled exertionuntil the boat sailed away. Among the contrabands was a boy, of about fifteenyears of age, whom my messmates concluded Avould answerour purpose as a cook. Accordingly he was selected and in-stalled as cook and oeneral utilitv man. IJis name was Rich- 30 Incidents and Adventures in Rebeldom. niond Crutchfield and he proved to be quite an original anda highly imitative darky. We
. Incidents and adventures in rebeldom; Libby, Bells-Isle, Salisbury. on the clothes line of a thrifty house-wife, after a two weeks washing. It was a most ludicrousscene and the boys cheered them on to redoubled exertionuntil the boat sailed away. Among the contrabands was a boy, of about fifteenyears of age, whom my messmates concluded Avould answerour purpose as a cook. Accordingly he was selected and in-stalled as cook and oeneral utilitv man. IJis name was Rich- 30 Incidents and Adventures in Rebeldom. niond Crutchfield and he proved to be quite an original anda highly imitative darky. We dubbed him Coon. He saidhe was a Ligiousnigger, but his Hgion soon evaporatedunder camp influences as was witnessed by his profanity, for hesoon learned to swear like a marine, and what was worse heseemed to think that cumulative profanity would be themost useful to him, so as fast as he acquired an oath he justhitched it onto one which he was already master of and thenhe simply swore them all off in a string. One day, as a flock of turkey-buzzards happened to be. flying over our camp, I said, Coon did ever you shoot a buz-zard ? No sar,; says he, I nebber did, but one of demfernal tings spewed on me onct, sho ! Why, how did thathappen ? I asked. Well, Ill des tell you, said of ole masser Crutchfields mules, he dun gone an he war lay in in de fiel an I go dar to fotch de cows, anddar two ole buzzards was des a pickin away at dat ole mulesliaid, an I frowed a stone at em an da flewed up des plumober mi haid, an one ob dem he jes fotch a squawk, an hespewed a whole hat full spat down on mi haid, dats wat he Manassas Gap. 31 did honey. Why didnt you shoot him ? asked one ofthe boys, as soon as he conld get his breath for laughing atCoons comic account of the transaction ; Shoot him,says Coon, with a string of oaths that would have stopped apirate ship, in mid ocean, Shoot him ! how I gwine toshoot him when I dun aint got no gun. Company C also had a negro boy, ab
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