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Annoying Quartermaster

Two separate accounts appear to describe the same individual, who perhaps served as Quartermaster of O'Neal's brigade, or in one of the regiments, who roamed around the town of Gettysburg while that battle was in progress, until taken captive on 4 July 1863. Can he be identified? The first mention is in, The Story of the Regiment, by W. H. Locke of the 11th Pennsylvania: A quartermaster of an Alabama brigade (who had made loud talking and boisterous threats of burning the town), invited himself to lodge in the house of a citizen on the evening of 3 July. The next morning, two Union soldiers were shown by his host into the room where he was still sleeping, and a few minutes later the quartermaster was seen in an involuntary march up the street, with a captor on either flank. The second account appears in, Three Years with Company K, part of the 13th Massachusetts: Some sleeping rebels were made prisoner in the town the morning of 4 July. Among the number was a drunken quartermaster who had previously harassed the Union men. This time he wore a sheepish look. The wounded Federal soldiers taunted him by asking how many Yanks could he lick this morning ... but he had no desire and was as humble as anyone could wish.

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