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58 THE LONE STAR DEFENDERS
do violence to all who were not loyal to the Southern
Confederacy. When we chanced to go to one of
their houses for forage, as frequently happened,
we could never see the man of the house, unless we
caught a glimpse of him as he was running to
some place to hide, and no assurance to his family
that we would not in any manner mistreat him
would overcome the deep conviction that we would.
This bitter feeling and animosity among the citizens
grew to such intensity, as the war advanced,
that life became a misery to the citizen of Missouri.
We moved around leisurely over the country from
place to place, foraging and feeding a few days
here and a few days there, and in the early days of
September, passing by way of Mount Vernon and
Carthage, we found ourselves at Scott's Mill, on
Cowskin River, near the border of the Cherokee
Nation. At Mount Vernon we witnessed a farce enacted
by Company D. Dan Dupree was their first
lieutenant, and a very nice, worthy fellow he was,
too, but some of his men fell out with him about
some trivial matter, and petitioned him to resign,
which he did. Captain Hale, supposing possibly
they might also be opposed to him, and too diffident
to say so, he resigned too, and the other officers
followed suit, even down to the fourth and last corporal,
and for the time the company was without
an officer, either commissioned or non-commissioned.
At this early stage of the war, for an officer to
resign was a very simple and easy thing. He had
only to say publicly to his company, "I resign,"
and it was so. The company was now formed into
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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/m1/65/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.