A Solemn Funeral Oration  

  You Are a Darling Good Man  

  Engineer Threw a Lump of Coal and Hit Me              

  We Went Into the Camp That Way  

  Just Promoted to the Proud Position of Corporal  

  Xcuse Me, But What Kind of a Thing is That?  

  Two Very Long Stockings, Came over the Pulpit  

  Gave a Yell That Could Have Been Heard A Mile  

  She Gave Him a Piece of Her Mind  

  I Forbid You Touching That Mare  

  Stood There for a Minute, Like A Horse Statute  

   

    

       CHAPTER I.     

      The War Literature of the “Century” is very Confusing—I am Resolved to tell the True Story of the War—How and Why I Became a Raw Recruit—My Quarters—My Horse—My First Ride. 

       For the last year or more I have been reading the articles in the Century magazine, written by generals and things who served on both the Union and Confederate sides, and have been struck by the number of “decisive battles” that were fought, and the great number of generals who fought them and saved the country. It seems that each general on the Union side, who fought a battle, and writes an article for the aforesaid magazine, admits that his battle was the one which did the business. On the Confederate side, the generals who write articles invariably demonstrate that they everlastingly whipped their opponents, and drove them on in       

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