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Title: Civil War stories
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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otruding from their sockets. As he cameplump down on a pile of soft earth, and a mo-ment later rolled off on to the ground, we wereabout as much amazed as he was. Marvelousas it may seem, the man was as sound as a dollar,not a bone broken. As soon as he could articu-late he said : Wha-wha-whar is I ? Safe, safe in the Promised Land! said ouradjutant. Good Lawd, how d I get here? I spect you came in a chariot of fire! re-plied the adjutant, who was never at a loss. The bewildered darky looked around him ina dazed sort of way, utterly unable to locate him-self; but the blue coats of our soldiers and thepractical character of the camp seemed to con-vince him that he was yet in the world. It tookhim several days to pull himself together, andafter that we had great sport with him in thecamp, where he was a prime favorite. He usedto say: Genlemen, I admiah to stay heah; but if yegwine send me back, I pray de Lawd ye wontdo it de way I come! He told us direful stories of the straits of those
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MOSES ARRIVES IN CAMP BY THE AIR LINE HOW MOSES WAS EMANCIPATED 131 inside of the city. He said: My missis she libin a cave side ob de road, for feah of de bomb-shells. Her har done all come out, and shelook moah like a scarecrow dan her own puttyself. He gave us some valuable information in re-gard to the fortifications and resources of theenemy. He was delighted to be among the Yankees, and to feel that he was no longer aslave. When the boys questioned him about his flight,he said: I was just lightin de kindlin to het up decolonel a dish o mule soup when de summonscome, and I was fired in de air like a rocket. Idunno what all became ob de colonel or desoup. What did you think, Moses, when you wereflying through the air? was one of the inquiriesput to him. I done hab no use for thinkin. T were toosuddint like; but, good Lawd, how de windblew! Did nt you think that the last day hadcome? asked another soldier, upon joining thegroup. 132 CIVIL WAR STORIES No, sah. I tawt de debbles was

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