ONE:"Well, le's have a song, then," said Shorty, as Si was looking around. "Where's Alf Russell?"Mr. Yank, Don't Conjure Me. 135
THREE:"And Cap Somerville took advantage of the break to snap up Cap's queen, which made him hotter'n ever."Well, from the talk that comes down from headquarters," said Si, "he may need every man. We've never had enough men so far. The rebels have always had more men than we did, and had the advantage of position. We only won by main strength and bull-headedness, and Rosecrans's good management. The rebels are straining every nerve to put up the fight o' their lives, and they say old Jo Johnston's got nearly as many men over there at Buzzard Roost as we have, and works that beat them we hustled Bragg out of around Tullyhomy."
THREE:Billings hesitated an instant, but he felt sure that the General did not belong to the Army of the Cumberland, and he answered:
THREE:"They need somebody," Norma said. "And we need them. Even."The Provost-Marshal was found in his office, dealing out sentences like a shoulder-strapped Rhadamanthes. It was a place that just suited Billings's tastes. There he could bully to his heart's content, with no chance for his victims getting back at him, and could make it very uncomfortable for those who were disposed to sneer at his military career. With a scowl on his brow, and a big chew of tobacco in his mouth, he sat in his chair, and disposed of the cases brought before him with abusive comments, and in the ways that he thought would give the men the most pain and trouble. It was a manifestation of his power that he gloated over.
