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American Civil War
Fourteenth Regiment Infantry
Aware that there was an existing order against bringing live stock into camp, he took much pains to get within the line of sentinels without being observed. He succeeded in this, but on the way to his tent, he was halted by an officer, when the following queries and answers were made: " Been a fishing, Mike?" "Yes, sur. " "Caught any?" "Ne're aone. " "Bad luck, Mike?" "Yes, sur. " "But you brought in something?" "Ne're a heppoth. " "Oh, yes, you have; and don't you know there is an order against bringing pigs into camp?" " Yes, sur. " "Then, why did you do it?" "I didn't, " says Mike. " You have, " says the officer. "I haint, " says Mike. "What is that behind you?" Mike turned around, and, in apparent amazement, exclaimed: "Be the hoky! some tief o' the wurld has tied that poor, innocent pig to my fish line
Civil War Battle
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