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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of a Confederate soldier. (search)
up the hill and marched them down again. May 6th, 1861.--This morning at 5 o'clock we were roused from our slumbers by the booming of cannon, fell into line, and answered to roll call. Our mess is composed of six good fellows, among whom is Dan, the baby of the regiment, or the infant as some are pleased to call him. He is about six feet and three inches in height, and weighs about three hundred pounds. He has the peculiar faculty of purchasing chicken and pigs without money, looking upog he accidentally, as he says, let an axe slip from his hand, and struck a fat pig on the head. Fresh pork was on the bill of fare for dinner, and the neighbors wondered where the soldiers got so much pork. But the mess will pay for the pig, and Dan will learn, before we meet the Yankees, that one of the duties of a good soldier is to respect, and protect private property, even though it be in the form of a trespassing pig. Ordered with a squad of twenty men, to pitch tents for the company