I done heard the boomin' o' cannon off there toward the rear." "Oh, why wasn't I called! Here I am sleeping away, and the enemy is already in touch with us!" "Don't you worry any 'bout that, sonny.

Don't you be so anxious to git into a fight, 'cause you'll have plenty of chances when you can't keep out o' it.

'Sides, Gin'ral Jackson ain't been expectin' you.

We're up near the head o' the line an' 'bout an hour ago when we was startin' a whiskered man on a little sorrel hoss rid up an' said: 'Which o' my staff have you got in there?
I remember 'signin' one to you last night.' I bows very low an' I says: 'Gin'ral Jackson, I don't know his name.

He was too sleepy to give it, but he's a real young fellow, nice an' quiet.
He ain't give no trouble at all.