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OFF FOR THE FRONT 85
On Saturday noon we were at Cassville, Mo.
That night we marched nearly all night, lying down
in a stubble field awhile before daylight, where we
slept two or three hours. About ten o'clock Sunday
morning, tired, dusty, hungry, and sleepy, we went
into camp in the neighborhood of General McCulloch's
headquarters, in a grove of timber near a
beautiful, clear, little stream. The first thing we
did was to look after something to eat for ourselves
and horses, as we had had no food since passing
Cassville, and only a very light lunch then. The
next thing was to go in bathing, and wash our
clothes, as we had had no change, and then to get
some longed-for sleep. In the meantime Colonel
Greer had gone up to General McCulloch's headquarters
to report our arrival. I was not present
at the interview, but I imagine it ran something like
this, as they knew each other well. Colonel Greer
would say "Hello, General! How do you do, sir?
Well, I am here to inform you that I am on the
ground, here in the enemy's country, with my regiment
of Texas cavalry, eleven hundred strong, well
mounted and armed to the teeth with United States
holster pistols, a good many chop knives, and several
double-barreled shotguns. Send Lyons word to turn
out his Dutch regulars, Kansas jayhawkers and Missouri
home guards, and we'll clean 'em up and drive
'em from the State of Missouri."
" Very well, very well, Colonel; go back and order
your men to cook up three days' rations, get all the
ammunition they can scrape up in the neighborhood,
and be in their saddles at eleven o'clock to-night,
and I will have them at Dug Springs at daylight
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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/m1/41/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.