The young officers had come crowding to the door, but Happy Tom received the first package, which was wrapped in sacking.
"An old Virginia ham, nut-fed and sugar-cured!" he exclaimed.

"Yes, it's real! By all the stars and the sun and the moon, too, it's real, because I'm pinching it! I thought I'd never see another such ham again!" "And here's a dressed turkey, a twenty-pounder at least!" said Harry.
"Ah, you noble bird! What better fate could you find than a tomb in the stomachs of brave Confederate soldiers!" "And another turkey!" said Dalton.
"And a bag of nuts!" said Sherburne.
"And, as I live, two bottles of claret!" said St.Claire.
"And a big black cake!" said Lieutenant-Colonel Hector St.Hilaire.
"And a great bunch of holly!" said Colonel Talbot, in whose eye, usually so warlike, a large tear stood.
"Dat," said Caesar, "was sent by little Miss Julia Moncrieffe, just nine years old.

She wished she had a bunch for every soldier in the army, an' she sent her lub to all uv 'em." "God bless little Julia Moncrieffe, aged nine," said Colonel Talbot, much moved.
"God bless her, so say we all of us," the others added together.
"And now, Caesar," said Colonel Talbot, "put your horse in the part of the stable that remains.

I noticed some hay there which you can give to him.

Then come to the kitchen.