. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ompromisethings and fix this up in a minute. Xow you take theprinciple and Ill take the potato, and well say nothingmore about it. I cared only for the potato, and you,only for the principle, so both ought now to be satis-fied. The disgusted look on Stuarts face and thelaugh ot the boys ended the little controversy and ina few minutes Idem walked off whistling Lorena. CHAITKR XI. OL AcT Jim Palmers Death— Jim Cjin s Gallantry—Lieut. Junes—Losses at Somerset— s Arrest. The next day we started and arrived safely in
. A cavalryman's reminiscences of the Civil War [electronic resource] . ompromisethings and fix this up in a minute. Xow you take theprinciple and Ill take the potato, and well say nothingmore about it. I cared only for the potato, and you,only for the principle, so both ought now to be satis-fied. The disgusted look on Stuarts face and thelaugh ot the boys ended the little controversy and ina few minutes Idem walked off whistling Lorena. CHAITKR XI. OL AcT Jim Palmers Death— Jim Cjin s Gallantry—Lieut. Junes—Losses at Somerset— s Arrest. The next day we started and arrived safely in Roanecounty, spent some little time on the banks of oldClinch river, and then started toward the Virginia line,. Lieut. JOS. G. HAWKES, 1893. OF THE CIVIL WAR. 57 but when we arrived at Rogersville, which was nearwe halted. It was at this place we saw Miss Marshall,daughter of Gen. Humphrey Marshall, present to theFirst East Tennessee Cavalry a beautiful battle flag,which, in a few weeks they lost at Somerset, Ky. It was here that J. G. Hawkes joined us and a valor-ous soldier he proved to be, rising to the position ofJunior Second Lieutenant of his company for gallan-try on the field. Afterward he informed us that whenhe determined to join the Confederate army, he askedan old gentleman of Virginia where he was livingwhich was the best cavalry command he knew of. Hereplied My opinion is that the First Louisiana, Scotts regiment, that has been operating in Ken-tucky and Tennessee is the best in the service. Theyare now just across the Virginia line, at that information, said Hawkes, I started, andin a day or two more was regularly enlisted in the FirstLouisiana, and,.aco
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