Then we would march and counter march backward and forward over the same ground, passing through Jonesboro away over the hill, and then back through the town, first four forward and back; your right hand to your left hand lady, swing half round and balance all.

This sort of a movement is called a "feint." A feint is what is called in poker a "bluff," or what is called in a bully a "brag." A feint means anything but a fight.

If a lady faints she is either scared or in love, and wants to fall in her lover's arms.

If an army makes a feint movement, it is trying to hide some other movement.
"Hello, Lee, what does Cleburne say the Yankees are doing at Jonesboro ?" "They are fanning themselves." "Well keep up that feint movement until all the boys faint from sheer exhaustion." "Hello, Stewart, do you think you will be able to burn up those ten locomotives, and destroy those hundred car loads of provisions by day after tomorrow ?" "Lee, ask Cleburne if he feels feinty?
Ask him how a fellow feels when he feints ?" Cleburne says: "I have feinted, feinted, and feinted, until I can't feint any longer." "Well," says Hood, "if you can't feint any longer, you had better flee, fight, or faint; Balaam gets along mighty slow, but I'll be thar after awhile." At one o'clock we were ordered to the attack.

We had to pass through an osage orange hedge that was worse than the enemy's fire.