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The Daily Dispatch: October 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac (search)
mule into this city, and stopping at the Charleston railroad depot, hitched his beast, called to a negro and told him to have his mule taken to Corinth. The stranger then started to Arkansas, and was absent a week. In the meantime, the negro not being at the head of the transportation department of the Charleston railroad, paid no attention to the orders given him, and went off, about his business. Some of the employees of the railroad, seeing the mule there all day, at night sent it to Patterson's stable, where it was taken care of. When its owner returned and inquired if his mule has been sent to Corinth, upon describing it, he was told where it was. The same day it was placed in a boxcar, with stats nailed across the doors, and with the owner in another car, started to Corinth. Arrived there, the man went to look for his animal, and found that it had "secede," having kicked off the slats and "jumped the world to come." The distress he exhibited was mournful to witness, and he s