. . at mother, but shenever said a word, and thatmade me still madder. Ijust took the plate andthrew the whole lot out up-on the ground. Jim, whatdo you think she done ? I think, said Jim,she ought to have throwedyou out, too. 14 Waal, all she said5, William, I hope thetime will come when youwill be glad to eat suchbread as that. Takingfrom his haversack a sec-tion of the hardest kind ofhardtack, he exclaimed in asolemn tone, as he held itout : 11 Jim, that mothersprayer has been an-swered! Here is another that Woodruff tells, on him
. . at mother, but shenever said a word, and thatmade me still madder. Ijust took the plate andthrew the whole lot out up-on the ground. Jim, whatdo you think she done ? I think, said Jim,she ought to have throwedyou out, too. 14 Waal, all she said5, William, I hope thetime will come when youwill be glad to eat suchbread as that. Takingfrom his haversack a sec-tion of the hardest kind ofhardtack, he exclaimed in asolemn tone, as he held itout : 11 Jim, that mothersprayer has been an-swered! Here is another that Woodruff tells, on himself : While theregiment was enjoying a temporary rest behind its first construct-ed breastworks, a iVw miles from Corinth, our attention was traded by rapid artillery firing SOtne distance to the Left, whichcontinued only for a short time. This nois\ spurt occasionedconsiderable anxiety to ascertain what occasioned it. Being a lit-tle ambitious to develop the mystery upon my own responsibility,I undertook a pilgrimage for a mile along the line of JOHN K,W PTH. u: xD. [April dtig to a battery tl evidence of having been recent- ly used, I halted ami i rgeant, the only per- son in sight I asked him it his ^uiis bad done the firing we had1. He replied that they had fired a few shots. I Inquiredof him what they we* .. He answered by asking me what in sheol I supposed the> I told him ar- tillery was sometimes used against the enemy, sometimes forpractice, and probably sometimes without any definite ; lip curled up, and without making any reply he left, butshortly returned in company with a corporal who carried his bonet on the eml of his musket, and who was kind enough to in-form me that the officer at 1; rters would like to see me. The headqnartx about tv, Is to tin- and a small tire, where the officer, a lieutenant-colonel of a Kentucky1 a half do/en others, were trying to adjust the tem-perature of their extremities t their comfort. My prospect ofrepo
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