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THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
ing and attending to our horses; and then, too, we
were learning valuable lessons in camp life. While
here we had plenty of rations for ourselves and
plenty of forage for the horses.
The citizens of Dallas County, as far as we came
in contact with them, were very kind to us. Our
nearest neighbor was a German butcher by the name
of Nusbauman. We used water from the well in
his yard and were indebted to him and his family
for many acts of kindness.
On one occasion Mrs. Nusbauman complained to
Captain Taylor that one of his men had borrowed
her shears to cut hair with, and would not bring
them back. No, she did not know the name of the
offender. The captain then said, " Madame, do you
know the man when you see him?" "Oh, yes."
" Well, when he comes to draw water again you
sprinkle flour on his back and I will find your
shears." In a few hours one of the men came out
from the well with his back covered with flour-and
the shears were promptly returned.
Our next nearest neighbors were a family named
Sheppard, who lived a few hundred yards south of
our camp, and whose kindness was unbounded.
Their house was our hospital for the time we were
in their vicinity, and the three young ladies of the
family, Misses Jennie Wood, Maggie, and another,
were unremitting in their attentions to the sick. On
one damp, drizzly day when I had a chill they heard
of it somehow, and in the afternoon two of them
drove up in a buggy and called for me to go home
with them, where I could be sheltered, as we yet had
no tents. I went, of course, recovered in one day,
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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/m1/27/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.