TUPELO We went into summer quarters at Tupelo.

Our principal occupation at this place was playing poker, chuck-a-luck and cracking graybacks (lice).
Every soldier had a brigade of lice on him, and I have seen fellows so busily engaged in cracking them that it reminded me of an old woman knitting.

At first the boys would go off in the woods and hide to louse themselves, but that was unnecessary, the ground fairly crawled with lice.

Pharaoh's people, when they were resisting old Moses, never enjoyed the curse of lice more than we did.

The boys would frequently have a louse race.