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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 13 (search)
Pocahontas, Tenn., Nov. 19.--An amusing instance of the efficiency of our negro troops occurred at this post to-day, which we will submit to our friends at the North as evidence of the vigilance with which our lines are guarded, and of the implicit obedience to orders, both general and special, which is here observed. A verdant but exceedingly well-developed Mississippian of twenty summers presented himself at the pickets guarded by colored troops, and, although Order No. 157 had completely closed the lines, the officer of the guard saw something suspicious in the stranger, and sent him under guard (a healthy African) to the Provost-Marshal, who inquired carefully into the young man's business within the lines, and ascertained that his chief ambition and desire was to procure a pound of tobacco, for which noble purpose he had come from down in Mississip. This was rather aggravating, but our Provost smothered his wrath somewhat and offered his visitor a bit of the weed; then turn