They thought that the balls would hunt for them and not hurt the privates.

I always shot at privates.

It was they that did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill or wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better.
I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

Colonel Field, I suppose, was about the only Colonel of the war that did as much shooting as the private soldier.

If I shot at an officer, it was at long range, but when we got down to close quarters I always tried to kill those that were trying to kill me.
SEWELL MOUNTAIN From Cheat Mountain we went by forced marches day and night, over hill and everlasting mountains, and through lovely and smiling valleys, sometimes the country rich and productive, sometimes rough and broken, through towns and villages, the names of which I have forgotten, crossing streams and rivers, but continuing our never ceasing, unending march, passing through the Kanawha Valley and by the salt-works, and nearly back to the Ohio river, when we at last reached Sewell Mountain.