. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . idnt take the men long to disposeof the seemingly scanty supply. This was particularly true ofB—, a good but quite rough soldier, whose native bluntness ofspeech several years experience on the Erie canal had notpolished in the least. His hunger was still far from being ap-peased, and he began to look about for a chance, like OliverTwist, to secure more. There was the poor recruit daintilytasting his coa
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . idnt take the men long to disposeof the seemingly scanty supply. This was particularly true ofB—, a good but quite rough soldier, whose native bluntness ofspeech several years experience on the Erie canal had notpolished in the least. His hunger was still far from being ap-peased, and he began to look about for a chance, like OliverTwist, to secure more. There was the poor recruit daintilytasting his coarse fare, his stomach on the verge of rejectioneven then, while his face wore its chronic I-wish-I-were-at-honie look. It frequently happened that the hominy containedlarge white worms having brown heads. The hungry soldiers,inured to all sorts of hardships, had learned long before eitherto shut their eyes when eating this dish or to just spoon theobnoxious wiggler and eat what was left. B— seeing the lad 4disgust chose him for his victim, and approaching asked himhow he liked his hominy. To which query came the reply thathe didnt like it, he never was used to eating such stuff. Do. OUT FOR Bowen (I) and Michael Murphy (I). Yank Gifford (F) and -Charley Keen (F). SOLDIERING IX THE DEFENSES. 73 you find any worms in your dish? This terribly shocked theboy, and he replied, No, did you? Oh, yes, said B—, twobig ones, and opening his mouth, Cant you see their entrailsbetween my teeth? though he used a much shorter and moreexpressive word than entrails. Alas for the fastidious youth,who rushed out to do what the whale did when tired of Jonah,and long before he returned B— had saved him any furtherapprehension as to that special dish of hominy. Some readers may recall the German, John L., and his reli-gious experience as already related. He was a good soldier, al-ways in the best of trim, his clothes, gun and equipment asbright as a new pin. He was apparently used
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