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Spilling Coffee.--A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial relates the following anecdote, which was told him by an officer of Bushrod Johnson's staff:
On Friday morning, the fourteenth, early, heavy skirmishing had commenced between the sharpshooters, while Gen. Johnson and his aids were taking their breakfast from two barrel-heads in the General's quarters.
Capt. Moorman does not drink coffee himself, but he filled a cup and passed it to the General.
While en route a rifle-ball took off the base of the cup so nicely as not to disturb the superstructure, spilling the coffee, while the General took the empty cup.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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