. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . erput in confinement; that Gen. Forney refused to doso until he received the charges against them; and asnone ever reached him he simply required them toreport to his headquarters regularly until they wereordered by the Secretary of War to report to CHAPTER \. March to East Ti-:\ \ksski-:—Dr. V Iortek Ikdwx sReminischncks—I 11 \ui;i;s oi ki:.n;nkss, I NCOM Y AM) COWARDICE AGAINST ONE OK Tin-: ( )iKi< i:ks—March \cross the ) Mountains, at London and We were now ordere
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . erput in confinement; that Gen. Forney refused to doso until he received the charges against them; and asnone ever reached him he simply required them toreport to his headquarters regularly until they wereordered by the Secretary of War to report to CHAPTER \. March to East Ti-:\ \ksski-:—Dr. V Iortek Ikdwx sReminischncks—I 11 \ui;i;s oi ki:.n;nkss, I NCOM Y AM) COWARDICE AGAINST ONE OK Tin-: ( )iKi< i:ks—March \cross the ) Mountains, at London and We were now ordered to East Tennessee and on thebanks of Clinch river, near the little town of Kingstonwe spent most of the summer having only a few skir-mishes with the enemy: among them that of Calf Kil-ler on the 4th of August. Right here it might be apropos to speak of our act-ing assistant surgeon. Dr. A. Porter Brown,—he isnow practicing in Fort Worth, Texas, and his recol-lections and descriptions of the oak timbered blacklands of the vicinity of Shiloh, and the immense. WALTER STEWART OF THE CIVIL WAR. 31 growth of wild onions are amusing and ludicrous. Therainfall immediately after the great battle was in ex-cess of anything we had, up to that time, seen. Thedoctor says (in a letter recently received from him),While sleeping under an oilcloth lent, (one impro-vised for that special occasion) I felt what I sup-posed to be a root under my side and putting my handinto my pocket to get my knife (the boys all slept intheir pants at that time) to cut it away, the muddywater splashed up my arm. Withdrawing the hand,I slung the water out of the sleeve and turned over andwent to sleep. The next morning the rain was stillpouring down, I saw a soldier stretched on a log snor-ing like he was in a feather-bed. When the regimentgot to Iuka the news that Xew Orleans had fallenwas received. Dr. Brown says he was sitting by acamp fire with his head resting in the palm of his handgrieving over th
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