17/48 The bank was lined with green roastingears. Well, what was to be done? We would pull up a few shucks on one ear, and tie it to the shucks of another--first one and then another--until we had at least a hundred tied together. We put the train of corn into the river, and as it began to float off we jumped in, and taking the foremost ear in our mouth, struck out for the other bank. Thousands of such occurrences were performed by the private soldiers of the Rebel army. |