And when in the very acme of our privations and hunger, when the army was most dissatisfied and unhappy, we were ordered into line of battle to be reviewed by Honorable Jefferson Davis.

When he passed by us, with his great retinue of staff officers and play-outs at full gallop, cheers greeted them, with the words, "Send us something to eat, Massa Jeff.

Give us something to eat, Massa Jeff.

I'm hungry! I'm hungry!" SERGEANT TUCKER AND GENERAL WILDER At this place the Yankee outpost was on one side of the Tennessee river, and ours on the other.

I was on the detail one Sunday commanded by Sergeant John T.Tucker.