FORE:"I gave no orders to raid any place. I have left all those matters in your hands, Colonel, with entire confidence that you would do the right thing.""I've got the right number, sir," Si answered, saluting; "and if they ain't all the same men they're just as good."
FORE:"Well, Bradshaw, you'll be the right of the line all the time, and the rest 'll form on you. Come, stand here.""Go down that way about 100 yards," Pete called down, "and you'll find a tall pine blowed down agin the cliff. You kin climb that, and git up to where its top lays right agin a bunch of bushes. Shorty rolled on my leg this morning, and waked me up before daylight. I then thought I'd git up and take a look, and see how things appeared before they got to shooting. I found the pine tree, and dumb it mighty quiet, intending to sneak up close to the rebels. But I couldn't find none. They was all gone."
THREE:'if You Don't Skip out O' Here This Minute I'll Bust Your Head As I Would a Punkin.' 264
FORE:"Regler Sons o' Malty biziniss, like I seen in St. Looyey," commented Shorty to himself. "Masks, shrouds, red fire and gong, all the same. But where've I heard that croakin' voice before?"Every face was blackened with powder almost beyond recognition. The artillerymen to the left were feverishly swabbing out their guns and trying to cool them off, and bringing up everything in the shape of ammunition from the limbers in the rear.
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As they neared their camp they were delighted to find it in a similar uproar to the others, with the men cheering, the brigade band playing, and the men throwing everything they could find on the brightly blazing bonfires. Ordinarily, such a long march as they had made to the top of the Lookout Mountain and back again would have been very tiresome, but in the enthusiasm of the occasion they forgot their fatiguealmost forgot their hunger. "Dear Sir: I believe you command the company, as they call