The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy by Henry Martyn Kieffer

Author:Henry Martyn Kieffer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories, Drummers (Musicians) -- Pennsylvania -- Mifflinburg -- Biography, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories, Kieffer, Henry Martyn, 1845-1930, United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 150th (1862-1865), United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Mifflinburg (Pa.) -- Biography, Child soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Mifflinburg -- Biography, Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile
Published: 2014-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XIV.

A TALE OF A SQUIRREL AND THREE

BLIND MICE.

"Andy, what is a shade-tail?"

We were encamped in an oak-forest on the eastern bank of the Rappahannock, late in the fall of 1863. We had built no winter-quarters yet, although the nights were growing rather frosty, and had to content ourselves with our little "dog-tents," as we called our shelters, some dozen or so of which now constituted our company row. I had just come in from a trip through the woods in quest of water at a spring near an old deserted log-house about a half-mile to the south of our camp, when, throwing down my heavy canteens, I made the above interrogatory of my chum.

Andy was lazily lying at full length on his back in the tent, reclining on a soft bed of pine-branches, or "Virginia feathers," as we called them, with his hands clasped behind his head, lustily singing—

"Tramp, tramp, tramp! the boys are marching!

Cheer up, comrades, they will come!

And beneath the starry flag

We shall breathe the air again—"

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