Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 446
l in front ofhis head-quarters is a spring ; but it seems thesurgeon of some hospital near by had got therebefore the General, and put a guard on the springto keep the water for the wounded. As I came up The darky, saying that he d see about dat,went up the hill to head-quarters, and returnedin a… … GENERAL GRANT CAN T HAVE ANY WATER FROM THIS SPRING TILL MY ORDERS ARE CHANGED ! I heard the guard say to a darky who had cometo the spring for water with a bucket: Get out of that, you black rascal! You canthave any water here. Guess I kin, said the darky. I want disyer water fer Genl Grant; an…
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