An equally strong line of cavalry in the rear drove in front of it every straggler or camp follower.

There was not a single person inside the whole army of Jackson who could get outside it except Jackson himself.
An extraordinary ban of ignorance was also placed upon them, and it was enforced to the letter.

No soldier should give the name of a village or a farm through which he passed, although the farm might be his father's, or the village might be the one in which he was born.

If a man were asked a question, no matter what, he must answer, "I don't know." The young Southern soldiers, indignant at first, enjoyed it as their natural humor rose to the surface.
"Young fellow," said Happy Tom to St.Clair, "what's your name ?" "I don't know." "Don't know your own name.

Why, you must be feeble minded! Are you ?" "I don't know." "Well, you may not know, but you look it.