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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
m a fence to destroy it. Occasionally this rule is violated, but if it reaches the cars of the commanding General the damage has to be made good by the offenders. A case happened the other day, in the command of the first soldier in the army, and who, I regret to learn, has sent in his resignation for some real or failed indignity offered him. When the army returned to Centreville some of the Louisiana troops took away a number of rains from a farmer's fence to keep up their camp fires.--Gen. Walker, in riding by, noticed the trespass, and at once demanded the offenders. Of course they were not to be found; and a general order was issued to the regiments near to replace every rail, and if they were not found, to go into the woods and split more.--The next day the fence was as high as ever, and those men, whether the real offenders or not, were cured of taking rails for fire-wood. Instances of individual and public prodigality are too numerous to mention, and it is much to be regret