. Life in tent & field, 1861-1865 . I told him there was nothing doing, thatSheridans orders were so strict I had not daredto put any whiskey into the wagons. He cameback a second time when I told him the same asBefore, but that if he would protect me with Sheri-dan I would see the Commissary Sergeant as towhat could be done. The third time he returnedand said the whiskey was for Sheridan and hisstaff and for all his officers. In some unaccount-able way a cask of whiskey had got in among thebarrels of sugar and salt. When we rode into Staunton I took from aJohnny an old Revolutionary flint-loc
. Life in tent & field, 1861-1865 . I told him there was nothing doing, thatSheridans orders were so strict I had not daredto put any whiskey into the wagons. He cameback a second time when I told him the same asBefore, but that if he would protect me with Sheri-dan I would see the Commissary Sergeant as towhat could be done. The third time he returnedand said the whiskey was for Sheridan and hisstaff and for all his officers. In some unaccount-able way a cask of whiskey had got in among thebarrels of sugar and salt. When we rode into Staunton I took from aJohnny an old Revolutionary flint-lock horsepistol, which I kept. The old thing was of novalue but I still have it. At Waynesboro among the mountains, Custercaptured Earlys entire force and took seventeenbattle flags, which were carried by his escort upto the time of Lees surrender. Custer was adashing officer and loved a display. The wagon train consisted solely of an am-munition train and my train of subsistence the road to Charlottesville the wagons got. GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER Expedition to Join Grant Before Richmond 145 stuck in the mud. While waiting for help to movethem I went into an elegant Southern house. Ifound only a lady, who told me that her husbandwas the English engineer who constructed theMenai Bridge; that our soldiers had taken severalhundred bottles of wine and had destroyed herfurniture and pictures, among them a painting byLandseer; and that some of the men were in thebasement at that time. I ordered them out andcame near being shot for my pains. They were alot of men whom we called dog robbers, whoon a long march would get away from their com-mand and commit all kinds of men were a curse to our Army. On a longmarch they would drop out of the column andwhen they again reported for duty claim thattheir horses were disabled and unable to keep their plundering and robbery they did morethan all the rest of the Arniy to embitter the in-habitants against the Nor
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