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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, July, 1863. (search)
y was told to illustrate the fact that the people of many counties in Tennessee were behind the times. It would take too much time to refer, even briefly, to all the stories related, and I will allude simply to a London ghost story, which Captain Halpin, an Irishman, of the Fifteenth Kentucky, undertook to tell. The gallant Captain was in the last stages of inebriety, and laid the scene of his London ghost story in Ireland. Steadying himself in his seat with both hands, and with a tongue re London ghost story, took a mug of beer all around, and then one gentleman, drunker probably than the others, or possibly unwilling, after all the time spent, to allow the ghost to escape, punched the Captain in the ribs and shouted: Captain-Captain Halpin, you said it was a London ghost story; maybe you'll find the ghost in London, for I'll be d-d if it's in Ireland! The Captain was too far gone to profit by the suggestion. July, 30 This evening General Rosecrans, on his way to Winchest