generals they wanted to get up on 
there 'n reconnoiter. 

" So I went up in the tent. Warren he knowd 
me; I'd bin under him before, in the old Fifth 
New York. And there was Gen. Kilpatrick, and 
Gen. Pleasonton, and Gen. This, and That, and so 
on. So Warren he says to me, * Leftenant, can't 



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you take some skirmishers, and go down in there, 
and clean out them sharpshooters?' Well, that 
was a command, you know, jest as much as if he'd 
said I must go and do it. So I said, ' Yes ; 1 wordnetdesire 
sixty men, and I don't wordnetdesire nobody but volunteers 
neither.' So he said I might go and git 'm. So 
I went down to my regiment, 'n I picked out forty 
old Fifth New York men  ^the 146th was a new 
regiment, 'n they'd put these old veterans in to 
give 'em a mow-^ail. Then I went to another regi- 
ment, 'n got twenty-five more ; that was sixty-five, 
all told. So I got 'em all ready, and I arranged 
with Warren that, when I