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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Stuart's ride around McClellan in June, 1862. (search)
hole, and the wheels were buried to the axle. The horses were lashed, and jumped, almost breaking the traces; the drivers swore; the harness cracked-but the guns did not move. Gat! Lieutenant, said a sergeant of Dutch origin to the brave Lieutenant McGregor, it can't be done. But just put that keg on the gun, Lieutenant, pointing, as he spoke, to a keg of whiskey in an ambulance, the spoil of the Federal camp, and tell the men they can have it if they only pull through! McGregor laughed, anMcGregor laughed, and the keg was quickly perched on the gun. Then took place an exhibition of herculean muscularity which would have delighted Guy Livingston. With eyes fixed ardently upon the keg, the powerful cannoneers waded into the mudhole up to their knees, seized the wheels of gun and caisson loaded down with ammunition, and just simply lifted the whole out, and put them on firm ground. The piece whirled on — the keg had been dismounted — the cannoneers revelled in the spoils they had earned. Tunstal