. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . sland this evening for an hour. CaptamsShearer, Rison, League, Pilot, and Pritchet ordered to Wash^ington. What is to be their fate, we cannot conjecture. March loth.—Shearer and party left this morning, andGeorge fell heir to Shearers bed. The number in our roomnow ^-educed to three—Murray, George, and myself. Re-ceived letters from my wife. Misses Essie an
. Bull run to Bull run; or, Four years in the army of northern Virginia. Containing a detailed account of the career and adventures of the Baylor Light Horse, Company B., Twelfth Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., with leaves from my scrap-book . sland this evening for an hour. CaptamsShearer, Rison, League, Pilot, and Pritchet ordered to Wash^ington. What is to be their fate, we cannot conjecture. March loth.—Shearer and party left this morning, andGeorge fell heir to Shearers bed. The number in our roomnow ^-educed to three—Murray, George, and myself. Re-ceived letters from my wife. Misses Essie and Maria Cheese-borough. Had addition to our number in the arrival of twoJews from Philadelphia, Jackson and Solomon, arrested ascontrabandists. We played a joke on them, by personatingColonel Perkins, making them disclose the whole affair, andordering them to cells and to take the oath. On this occasion referred to in my fathers diary, my fatherwas dressed as Colonel Perkins, Murray was his adjutant, andsome six or seven of us composed the Colonels escort. TheJews room was entered, and their blockade business extortedfrom them under threat of immediate death. The oath ofalleo-iance was then offered them. Solomon at once offered. Robert Cookus. 100 Bull Run to Bull Run. to take it, but Jackson refused, saying he was a Southernman. Solomon was so unstable, we named him Reuben, butJackson we called Judah, by reason of his firmness. Solomon,having agreed to take the oath, was taken out of the roomand marched down the hallway to a little closet about fivefeet square, in which he was put and the door closed, Murraysaying, in a stentorian voice, Sentinel, if he moves in there,shoot him. We then returned to our rooms, and poor Solo-mon remained in the closet all night, but Jackson was treatedwith much kindness. In the morning we told Gemmil whatwe had done, and he, and Jackson, too, enjoyed the joke onSolomon, but Gemmil went to the closet and released himfrom close confinement. My
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