. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. phia, who was continually pulled in bythe provost guard. He was sometimes discovered dressedas a citizen, sometimes as a private, and again as an of-ficer. One night, or rather morning, he was discovereddown town as a full-fledged lieutenant colonel. Beingbrought, the next morning, before Lieutenant ColonelSeibert, then commanding the regiment, he (Seibert)asked him where he got that coat. I bought it in Phil-delphia, was answered. Guard, called out Seibert, take that coat from him and lay it o
. Minty and the cavalry [electronic resource]: a history of cavalry campaigns in the western armies. phia, who was continually pulled in bythe provost guard. He was sometimes discovered dressedas a citizen, sometimes as a private, and again as an of-ficer. One night, or rather morning, he was discovereddown town as a full-fledged lieutenant colonel. Beingbrought, the next morning, before Lieutenant ColonelSeibert, then commanding the regiment, he (Seibert)asked him where he got that coat. I bought it in Phil-delphia, was answered. Guard, called out Seibert, take that coat from him and lay it on that fire, point-ing to a fire in front of his quarters. The guard did so,and a smell of burning woolen was soon wafted over thecamp. At the hour of dress parade, Lieutenant Col-onel Seibert went to his tent to get his dress coat, but nodress coat was there. It then dawned on his mind that afifty-dollar lieutenant colonels dress coat,shoulder-straps,and all, had that morning been burned, by his order, infront of his quarters. The colonel swore, and the fieldand staff laughed at him for ??%*& DOUGLASS ALEX. MURRAY, Lt. Colonel Third Ohio Cavalry. CHAPTER XXV THE SECOND BRIGADE. Organization of the Fourth Ohio—Capture op Bowling Green—Sur-render of Nashville — Wild Chase after Morgan — Capture ofHuntsville, Alabama — Reports of Colonel Kennett, First OhioCavalry—Lebanon, Kentucky—Fort Donaldson—Pittsburg Landing—Corinth, Mississippi—Third Ohio Cavalry—Advance on Savannah—Fight at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. One foot in the stirrup, One hand on the mane,One glance at the flag floating there; Then firm in the saddle, And loosend the rein,And the sword-blade gleams bare. HE following summary of the operations of theSecond brigade, Second Cavalry division, com-manded by Colonel Eli Long, not being in-cluded and covering periods while it was operating inde-pendently 01 the division, is here, inserted, in order thatthe history may be brought up to the cl
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