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Chapter-1 Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.	Bruce 2024-10-5	036	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:07
Chapter-1 Arrangements had not yet been completed for obtaining the full quota of horses, but those who had horses performed what they imagined to be cavalry maneuvers in the field behind the courthouse, kicked up a great deal of dust, yelled themselves h	Bruce 2024-10-5	043	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:07
Chapter-1 The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.	Bruce 2024-10-5	036	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:07
Chapter-1 The upshot of the matter was that every planter agreed to pay for equipping his own sons and a certain number of the others, but the manner of handling the arrangements was such that the less wealthy members of the outfit could accept horses and	Bruce 2024-10-5	034	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:07
Chapter-1 So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up to full strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter in the County with the one exception of Angus MacIntosh, had contrib	Bruce 2024-10-5	030	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:07
Chapter-1 But they were as fiercely proud in their poverty as the planters were in their wealth, and they would accept nothing that smacked of charity from their rich neighbors.	Bruce 2024-10-5	031	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their business generally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of their reach.	Bruce 2024-10-5	032	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 As for the poor whites, they considered themselves well off if they owned one mule.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 The mules could not be spared to go off to war, even if they had been acceptable for the Troop, which they emphatically were not.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 They carried on their farm operations with mules and they had no surplus of these, seldom more than four.	Bruce 2024-10-5	028	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:06
Chapter-1 Few small farmers owned horses.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 But rich planters were few in the young county of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among the sons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a	Bruce 2024-10-5	027	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.	Bruce 2024-10-5	028	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 But the planters' ladies and the planters' slaves could not overlook the fact that he was not born a gentleman, even if their men folks could.	Bruce 2024-10-5	028	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.	Bruce 2024-10-5	028	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:05
Chapter-1 The Troop bowed to real worth and moreover, because they liked him, they made him an officer.	Bruce 2024-10-5	029	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:04
Chapter-1 Moreover, Able was the best shot in the Troop, a real sharpshooter who could pick out the eye of a squirrel at seventy-five yards, and, too, he knew all about living outdoors, building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.	Bruce 2024-10-5	027	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:04
Chapter-1 Too many of their fathers and grandfathers had come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.	Bruce 2024-10-5	033	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:00

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