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fLYL(ifcReminesences of a Johnny Reb.Brother M. H. Ingrim, editor of the Winamae Dem .crat-Journal and for four years a soldier in the C. S. A., writes as follows concerning the 23rd Indiana: “I think that it wasthe late veteran, -J. F. Yarneil, who told about the ‘thieving 23rd Indiana.’ which once held up arJ robbed the captain’s boys of sc .ne of the j fruits of their raid on southern.2 smokehouses. The 53rd had “cap- $ tured” a big lot of cowpeas, which product had formed a generous por- jc tion of Confederate rations, and after filling their haversacks, another straggling Yank, who had nothing to carry his rations in, stepped behind the house, pulled off his drawers and made a sack by tieing the legs at the ankles, and off he marched with the peas in the forked sack around his neck. In fact, from all reports, including word from Joe Corbett’s 87th Indiana regiment the 23rd Indiana boys were a “holy terror’’ to all other commands. The 23rd once raided a camp near Selma, Ala., and swiped two hams, three Bibles, a goose and a silk dress. So notorious did the 23rd become, that, whenever any valuables came up missing on the march, General Sherman would halt the army and order the 23rd searched for the missing property. But the 23rd Indiana regiment was composed of fine soldiers and splendid fighters.’’
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Knox Starke County Republican
Knox, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1914
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