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Title: War from the inside; or, Personal experiences, impressions, and reminiscences of one of the "boys" in the war of the rebellion
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman)
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 132nd (1862-1863) United States. Army Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 132rd (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: Philadelphia, Press of J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lar experi-ences on that first day. The first occurred in connectionwith my horse. I mounted and started for division head-quarters, about a half-mile away, in ample time to reachthere a little before the appointed time—eight oclock,but reaching the outer edge of our camp my horse balked,and in answer to my efforts to move him began to kick,rear, and plunge. He tried to throw me, and did nearlyeverything except roll over. Every time I headed himforward, he would wheel around and start back for hisstable. I coaxed him, then tried the spur, all to no pur-pose. I was losing valuable time, besides having a veryuncomfortable kind of a fight on hand. I realized I mustmake him obey me or I could never handle him again. Anorderly from General French came galloping over withthe expected peremptory message. One minutes delaywith him was almost a capital ofTence. I could only returnword that I was doing my best to get there. The generaland his stafY then rode over to see my performance. He 170
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The Winter at Falmouth reassured me with the remark, Stick to him and makehim obey you, or kill him. Well, it took just about onehour to conquer him, at the end of which time I hadploughed up several acres of ground, my horse was in awhite lather, and I was in the same condition. When hequit, he did so at once, and went on as cleverly as thoughnothing had happened. The cause of this freak I neverunderstood, he never having done so before, and neverdid again. May I digress long enough to speak a little more of thisremarkable horse. Dr. Holland says there is always hopefor any man who has heart enough to love a good horse.Army life was well calculated to develop the sterling quali-ties of both man and beast. Hence, I suppose every manwho had a good horse could safely regard him as mostremarkable. How many such have I heard cavalrymentalk about, descanting on the remarkable qualities oftheir half-human favorites, whilst the tears wet theircheeks. I had named this splendid animal Don Fula

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