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CHAPTER IV
THE WAR IN MISSOURI
Personal Characteristics-Two Braggarts-Joe WelchWilliam
Hood-We Enter Springfield-Bitter Feeling in Missouri-Company
Elections-Measles and Typhoid-Carthage,
and My Illness There-We Leave Carthage-Death of Captain
Taylor-Winter Quarters-Furloughed-Home Again.
A BATTLE-or danger-will often develop some
characteristics that nothing else will bring out.
One Gum was a shabby little man, mounted on
a shabby little mustang pony; in fact his horse was
so shabby that he would tie him, while we were at
Dallas, away off in the brush in a ravine and carry
his forage half a mile to feed him rather than have
him laughed at. Gum was a Missourian, and got
into the company somehow, with his fiddle, and aside
from his fiddling he was of little use in -camps.
During the time we were kept slowly moving along
in the rear of our infantry, engaged mainly in the
unprofitable business of dodging balls and shells
that were constantly whizzing near our heads, Captain
Taylor was very anxious that his company
should act well under fire and would frequently
glance back, saying: " Keep your places, men."
Gum, however, was out of place so often he finally
became personal, "Keep in your place, Gum." At
this Gum broke ranks and came trotting up on
his little pony, looking like a monkey with a red
cap on, for, having lost his hat, he had tied a red
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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/m1/59/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.