Excerpt from Recollections Written in the Library of Congress, WashingtonOf the years of the war I recall only this incident, which is as vivid as yesterday's events Some soldiers (i do not know whether Yankee or Confederate) stopped one day at our home. I was afraid to touch or get near them. I do not know how long they stayed or what they did, except that they took my father's only horse (he had one horse and one mule) which they saw ploughing in a nearby field. He was a nice looking bay horse. They commandeered or captured this horse, to our dismay I suppose the feelings aroused I was too young and too frightened to apprehend. No doubt I thought we were lucky to escape alive from their visit. But they didn't keep this horse. On the hard road he manifested a limp something was wrong with his feet or a leg so he couldn't travel well, although he could pull a plow. It was doubtless due to this defect that we had him at all, for I imagine most able bodied horses and 'mules had been drafted for the Confederate service.So the horse was turned loose by the soldiers before they carried him far, and we were rejoiced to see our dear old horse coming home again.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.