Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4.
Frank Moore, Ed.

[88] A Colonel on guard.--A lieutenant in one of the Ohio regiments was making a detail of men to guard a lot of army stores captured from the enemy. He approached a crowd of men all wearing overcoats, such as Uncle Sam gives his boys, and selected four or five for special duty. It happened that Lieut.-Col. Gazley, of the Thirty-seventh Indiana, was in the crowd, and was selected by the lieutenant. This was fun for the Colonel, and without a word he shouldered his gun and went to his post of duty. Not long afterward the lieutenant, going his rounds, discovered by the firelight the bugle upon Gazley's cap. He rather authoritatively inquired where he got that bugle? The Colonel said he “must have picked up an officer's cap somewhere,” and the lieutenant passed on.

The Colonel stood his turn all night long, and was found in the morning walking his post. Having laid off his overcoat, his shoulder-straps appeared very conspicuously in connection with the musket on his shoulder. As soon as the lieutenant discovered a Colonel on guard, he approached him and courteously inquired how he came to be there upon guard? “Well, sir, you placed me here.” With no little agitation the lieutenant inquired who he was? “My name is Carter Gazley, and I am Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Indiana regiment.” The Colonel was speedily “released,” but the lieutenant is not yet relieved from his embarrassment.