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THE WAR IN MISSOURI 75
said, and not a friendly face could I see, nor could
a morsel of bread be procured for love or patriotism.
Passing onward two or three miles, and having
learned that the guns were coming, we rested, and
privately made details to scour the country and beg
for a little food " for sick and wounded men." Tom
Johnson went out for our mess, and the sorrowful
tales that were told in behalf of the poor sick and
wounded soldiers we were hauling along in ambulances,
with nothing with which to feed them, would
have melted a heart of stone. The ruse was a success,
as the details came in at night with divers small
contributions made from scant stores for " the poor
sick and wounded men," which were ravenously consumed
by the well ones. The artillery shortly afterwards
came up and was escorted by us to the command.
Camping that night a few miles from Huntsville,
the artillery had taken the wrong road as it
left the battlefield, had gone up into Missouri, and
had had a long circuitous drive through the mountains,
but otherwise they were all right.
After we returned with the guns, the army moved
on southward. When we were again in motion, as
there was no further apprehension of being followed
by the enemy, hunger having nearly destroyed my
respect for discipline, I left the column by a byroad
leading eastwardly, determined to find something
to eat. This proved a more difficult errand than
I had expected, for the mountaineers were very poor
and apparently almost destitute of supplies. I had
traveled twelve or fifteen miles when I rode down the
mountain into a little valley, at the head of Frog
Bayou, coming to a good log house owned and oc-
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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/m1/82/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.