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92 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
that my brother had gone, on sick leave, with Wallace
Drake, one of his comrades, to some of Drake's
relatives, down the railroad. With these exceptions
I was irot away from my post at any time. I must
have gained some reputation for efficiency, as the
quartermaster of our Arkansas regiment offered to
give me half his salary if I would assist him in his
office.
All the time we were at Corinth Major-General
I-alleck, with a large army, was moving forward
from Pittsburgh Landing, on the Tennessee River,
near the Shiloh battlefield, by regular approaches.
That is, he would construct line after line of intrenchments,
each successive line being a little nearer
to us. Hence our troops were often turned out and
marched rapidly to the front, in expectation of a
pitched battle that was never fought, sometimes being
out twenty-four hours. On one occasion an active
movement was made to Farmington in an effort
to cut off a division of the enemy that had ventured
across Hatchie River, and the move was so nearly
successful that the enemy, to escape, had to abandon
all their camp equipage. On one of the days when
our troops were rushing to the front in expectation
of a battle, I came up with an old patriot marching
along through the heat and dust under an umbrella,
while a stout negro boy walking by his side carried
his gun. This was the only man I saw during the
war that carried an umbrella to fight under. As
the battle failed to come off that day, I had no opportunity
of learning how he would have manipulated
the umbrella and gun in an engagement.
After General Hogg's death and the promotion of
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/100/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.