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John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, July, 1863. (search)
n is right. Half the army would be at home if leaves and furloughs could be had for the asking. July, 29 Lieutenant Orr received notice yesterday of his appointment as captain in the subsistence department, and last night opened a barrel of beer and stood treat. I did not join the party until about ten o'clock, and then Captain Hewitt, of the battery, the story-teller of the brigade, was in full blast, and the applause was uproarious. He was telling of a militia captain of Fentress county, Tennessee, who called out his company upon the supposition that we were again at war with Great Britain; that Washington had been captured by the invaders, and the arch-iv-es destroyed. A bystander questioned the correctness of the Captain's information, when he became very angry, and, producing a newspaper, said: D-n you, sir, do you think I can't read, sir? The man thus interrogated looked over the paper, saw that it announced the occupation of Washington by the British, but called the