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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, March, 1863. (search)
jor. To-night an ugly and most singular specimen of the negro called to obtain employment. He was not over three feet and a half high, hump-backed, crooked-legged, and quite forty years old. Poking his head into my tent, and, taking off his hat, he said: Is de Co'nel in? Yes. Hurd you wants a boy, sah. Man tole me Co'nel Eighty-eighth Olehio wants a boy, sah. What can you do? Can you cook? Yas, sah. Where did you learn to cook? On de plantation, sah. What is your master's name? Rucker, sah. Is he a loyal man? No, sah, he not a lawyer; his brudder, de cussen one, is de lawyer. Is he secesh? O, yas, sah; yas, he sesesh. It is the Colonel of the Eighty-eighth Indiana you should see; and I directed him to the Colonel's tent. As he turned to leave, he muttered, Man tole me Eighty-eighth Olehio ; but he went hobbling over to the Eighty-eighth, with fear, anxiety, and hope struggling in his old face. March, 4 Major Kalfus, Fifteenth Kentucky, arrested on Sunday, and