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10th Regiment Cavalry
In the morning when we went to be paroled, I made bold to ask another favor. Some of my officers were dismounted, and I asked you if you could not furnish them with some broken down animals to aid them in getting to their homes. To our surprise you fitted them all out with horses able to carry them, and, restoring to us our side arms, you bade us good-bye with a hearty wish for our future happiness. The effect of such kindness on men as dispirited and broken in hopes and expectations as we were, can not be described. Such, gentlemen, is my story, and you will hardly wonder that I was willing to go a hundred miles to see this gentleman. And, General, I am glad to meet you again, and thank you for a kindness which you have probably forgotten all about; and if you ever come to our section of the country, I want you to remember that the latch string is always out. I am now making iron in northern Alabama, and if you ever come that way you must hunt me up."
American Civil War
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