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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 14: siege and capture of Vicksburg (search)
after our sap-rollers had been pushed up to the enemy's ditches, a sort of truce was established by common consent between the sentries who were watching one another. On one of our visits we found our sentry, a good-natured Kentuckian, very much embarrassed. It seems that the Johnny opposite, who was close enough to shake hands with him, had asked for a chew of tobacco, and one had been kindly passed over. But it had been sent back enclosed in a note which ran about as follows: Thank you, Yank! It was very good of you to send the tobacco. We are hard up over here and almost anything will do; but, thank God, we are not hard enough up to use such stuff as that. The Kentuckian, a kind and generous fellow who meant to be neighborly, was evidently chagrined at the rejection of his offering, and seemed disposed to end the truce, but Dana, who was amused by the incident, suggested that the pleasant relations should be continued and that he would bring a plug of better tobacco at his n