. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . us a very cordial reception. He wascarrying two wooden buckets and a large gourd. Bothbuckets were filled with whisky. Te asked Captain Keysto allow him to treat his men. He said that he was tooold to go to war, but he would do the next best thing, treatthose who were going. Captain Keys halted his companyand Mr. Maple began issuing rations by the gourd full,saying that he was not going to take any of it back to thehouse. S
. Elwood's stories of the old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865 [electronic resource]: the first three year cavalry of the Civil War : with introduction by the Rev. Ryland . us a very cordial reception. He wascarrying two wooden buckets and a large gourd. Bothbuckets were filled with whisky. Te asked Captain Keysto allow him to treat his men. He said that he was tooold to go to war, but he would do the next best thing, treatthose who were going. Captain Keys halted his companyand Mr. Maple began issuing rations by the gourd full,saying that he was not going to take any of it back to thehouse. Some of the whisky was left over as all the boysdid not belong to the class who drank intoxicants. Oneof our number wanted to take some along with him. Hehad nothing else to carry it in so he asked that it be pouredinto his hat. This was done. This incident was the sourceof much merriment as some of the rest of the boys tried toget possession of that hat. But, as he had a good horse,he was able to get away from them. The boys alwaysrefered to this incident as the time they were treated toMaple syrup. Arriving at Morgantown about five oclock we found ON TO GRAFTON 25. 2 > Z a H CD J 26 ELWOODS STORIES that the loyal people had prepared for our coming, andwe were received with wide-open arms in that good oldtown on the upper Monongahela. This was one time thatwe did not have the least bit of trouble to prove that wewere soldiers. The people came forward and took us totheir homes. It fell to the lot of the writer and MichaelH. Core to spend the night with the Rev. Henry N. Biggs,the pastor of the Presbyterian church. This was the lastclean bed that we slept in until we came home three years-later. We were never treated better than we were in Mor-gantown. While in Morgantown an amusing incident happenedThe town had a regular war scare. The people were on thelookout for the Confederate soldiers. Before dispersingfor the night Captain Keys gave orders that, if there wasany alarm of
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