Went with two Company F men and got breakfast at a farmhouse. Some of
the boys had had nothing to eat for 36 hours. Ham and corn bread. Borrowed 20
cents and paid. They asked nothing but we preferred to pay them. Major Burnett,
with detail of five started for Fort Scott. Several of us contrived to go too.
Got breakfast out three miles, milk and honey. A man came up. We frightened him
so he swore he was secesh and made himself ridiculous generally for a union
man. Had a secesh horse, taking care of it. Brought him in. In the morning put
a rope around a boy's neck and made him take the oath with some meaning.
Letters from Minnie, Melissa and Fannie.
SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris
Tenney, p. 27
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