. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . A Memorable Mess-Pan. 2S6 THE TENTH REGIMENT. Milking the Cow. Job Armstrong was oneof the advance guards ofCompany H who first tookpossession of Battery Ver-mont. He was also a greatmilk forager, and had a won-derful faculty in deluding thecows of the neighborhoodinto the belief that he wasone of their own calves. Acow would stand placidly,chewing her cud, while Jobwith a persuasive So bossy,would milk with all his might. One clay after he and anothercomrade had
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . A Memorable Mess-Pan. 2S6 THE TENTH REGIMENT. Milking the Cow. Job Armstrong was oneof the advance guards ofCompany H who first tookpossession of Battery Ver-mont. He was also a greatmilk forager, and had a won-derful faculty in deluding thecows of the neighborhoodinto the belief that he wasone of their own calves. Acow would stand placidly,chewing her cud, while Jobwith a persuasive So bossy,would milk with all his might. One clay after he and anothercomrade had filled pails and canteens, and drank the milk foam-ing fresh from the cow, they hurried back to camp, and concealeda large pan of milk under Jobs bunk. Soon the farmers wifearrived and complained to Captain Duckworth, that some of hismen had milked her cows. Nobody knew anything about it, andJob, who had overheard everything, declared with much warmth,that he didnt believe there was a man in Company H meanenough to do such a thing, but hed make it his business to gothrough every tent, and if he found anybody with milk in hispossession he would report him. Thus assured, t
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