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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, December, 1863. (search)
rops in, and you ask him to dine; but he has just been to dinner, and thanks you. Observing Captain Clayson, he asks how the business of the courtmartial progresses, and says: By the way, Captain, the sentence in that quarter-master's case was disapproved because the record was defective. The Captain blushes. He made up the record, and it strikes him the Major's remark is very untimely. It is dull! November, 30 Took a ten-mile ride this afternoon. Two miles from camp I met Lieutenant Platt, one of my aids. He had asked permission in the morning to go into the country to secure a lady for a dance, which is to take place a night or two hence. I asked: Where have you been, Lieutenant? At Mrs. Calisspe's, the house on the left, yonder. I did not, of course, ask if he had been successful in his mission; but as I approached the little frame in which Mrs. Calisspe resided, I thought I would drop in and see what sort of a woman had drawn the Lieutenant so far from camp. Knoc