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Nationals Frightened by A Rooster.--One of the soldiers of General T. R. R. Cobb's brigade has a game-cock, which he had with him on the day of the battle of Fredericksburgh.
By a trick, or signal, which they had taught him, the soldiers could make the cock crow whenever they chose.
Upon each advance of the enemy,
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just before our sharp-shooters opened upon them, the cock's clear, shrill clarion rung out on the sulphurous air. This strange defiance, while it cheered and amused our boys, fell with a depressing effect upon the ears of the enemy.
When the foe retired to return no more, the cock, with repeated crows, sounded the victory.--Savannah Republican, January 8.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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