And then to hear some fellow ask, "Why ain't you with them, then, you cowardly puppy?
Take off that coat and those chicken guts; coo, sheep; baa, baa, black sheep; flicker, flicker; ain't you ashamed of yourself?
flicker, flicker; I've got a notion to take my gun and kill him," etc.

Every word of this is true; it actually happened.

But all that could demoralize, and I may say intimidate a soldier, was being enacted, and he not allowed to participate.

How we were moved from one position to another, but always under fire; our nerves strung to their utmost tension, listening to the roar of battle in our immediate front, to hear it rage and then get dimmer until it seems to die out entirely; then all at once it breaks out again, and you think now in a very few minutes you will be ordered into action, and then all at once we go double-quicking to another portion of the field, the battle raging back from the position we had left.

General Leonidas Polk rides up and happening to stop in our front, some of the boys halloo out, "Say, General, what command is that which is engaged now ?" The general kindly answers, "That is Longstreet's corps.