"Good-day."
"You seem to be working hard."
"I've need to do it. Farm hands are scarce these days."
"Farming is hard work."
"Yes; but it's a lot safer than some other kinds men are doin' nowadays."
"True, no doubt, but have you seen anything of the army?"
"What army?"
"The one under Lee and Jackson, the rebel army."
"I ain't heard of no rebel army, mister. I don't know of any such people
as rebels."
"You call it the Confederate army. Can you tell us anything about the
Confederate army?"
"What Confederate army, mister? I heard last month when I went in to the
court house that there was more than one of them."
"I mean the one under Lee and Jackson."
"That's cur'us. A man come ridin' 'long here three or four weeks ago.
Mebbe he was a lightnin' rod agent an' mebbe he had patent medicines to
sell, he didn't say, but he did tell me that General Jackson was in one
place an General Lee was in another. Now which army do you mean?"
"That was nearly a month ago. They are together now."
"Then, mister, if you know so much more about it than I do, what are you
askin' me questions for?"
"But I want to know about Lee and Jackson.
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