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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 26 0 Browse Search
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d to hear how he appeared to the eyes of Corporal Shabrach, their grandfather, one of the humble sor-in-Chief will ever know whether Fifth Corporal Shabrach likes or dislikes him-whether he admirest only a gentleman, but a great man, and Corporal Shabrach takes off his hat and salutes him, whethnerals tried to oppress the humble Fifth Corporal Shabrach, he would put the Major-General under ar my friend? It was a proud moment for Corporal Shabrach, I assure you, my children, to be calledom a sweetheart, General, I replied; after Mrs. Shabrach the Second died, I determined to remain unsked your name, snapped the official. Solomon Shabrach. What rank? Fifth Corporal. Whators. That paper will show you that I am Corporal Shabrach, of the Quattlebum Rifles,--Virginia regwas a permit to go to Orange Courthouse, Corporal Shabrach binding himself on honour not to communiyou. Everybody has to get one; and even if Mrs. Shabrach (the second) was alive she would have to s[2 more...]
, but it is certain that an officer did kill his horse under the circumstances narrated. Thus the mind is left in a state of bewilderment as to how much is true and how much is false in the worthy's story; and perhaps the safest proceeding would be to set down the whole as an historical romance. I have thought it best to convey this caution to the reader, lest the narrative here given might cast discredit upon the other papers in these Outlines, which contain, with the exception of Corporal Shabrach and Blunderbus, events and details of strict historical accuracy. I have never told you, said Longbow, of the curious adventures which I met with in the Valley in 1861, and how I got my fine blood bay, and lost him. I was then a private, but had just been detailed as volunteer aide to Colonel Jackson-he was not General or Stonewall yet-and had reported a few days before the engagement at Falling Waters. I need not inform you of the state of affairs at that time, further than to