Started on our return at 8 o'clock, with drove of cattle and
horses. Major and Purps went ahead, and a few miles from the road, to a
deserted camp and got a secesh wagon, old style, hitched in four horses and had
a gay time. Lead horses whirled after a time and broke the tongue, fixed it and
with two horses drove through the camp. Horses balked several times, once in the
river. Hadley and I undressed and helped across. Command stopped at Hudson's.
Jayhawked the people badly. (“Purps”— nickname for noncommissioned staff.)
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman
Harris Tenney, p. 18
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