Frank, here are two more I enjoyed while reading that. One is about General Hardee.. The other is about General Beauregard. What is wierd though is I have heard the Beauregard story a thousand times. It has been posted on this very board many times. But usually the story is told about General Lee and his "Texans". The little book is sometimes hard to relate to as far as getting the humor but I did find some nuggetts of gold in there. I even learned what they call the siphon hole on a barrel. I can't repeat it in here but let's just say Beavis & Butthead would have been proud LOL!!!

Here are the two lil' stories...

As our army was returning from Northern Mississippi, one of the soldiers who was straggling rather far in the rear, was accosted by Gen. Hardee, with "Hallo, my friend, why don't you hurry up, and not be lagging so far behind?"

"Ain't you Gen. Hardee?" asked the straggler.

"Yes, I am, but why do you ask?"

"Well, didn't you write a book called Hardee's Tactics?"

"Yes, I did."

"Well, didn't you tell in that book how to double column at half distance?"

"Yes, I did."

"But you never said nothin' about how to double distance on half rations, did you, General?"

"No, my friend, I did not; but you can take your time, only do the best you can," replied the General, as he put spurs to his horse and gallopped off.

An Englishman, reviewing Beauregard's army last summer, observed some of our careless soldiers with white flags in the seat of their breeches, and he said to Beauregard that the Yankees would laugh if they saw such sights. "O," said our General," the Yankees never see the backs of our men."