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THE WAR IN MISSOURI 53
cotton handkerchief around his head. When opposite
the captain he reined up, and with a trembling
frame and in a quivering voice, almost crying, he
said: "Captain, I can't keep my place. I am a
coward, and I can't help it." Captain Taylor said,
sympathetically: "Very well, Gum; go where you
please." It so happened that a few days later we
passed his father's house, near Mount Vernon, and
the captain allowed him to stop and remain with his
father. And thus he was discharged. At this stage
of the war we had no army regulations, no " red
tape" in our business. If a captain saw fit to discharge
one of his men he told him to go, and he
went without reference to army headquarters or the
War Department. I met Gum in November, fleeing
from the wrath of the home guards, as a man who
had been in the Confederate Army could not live
in safety in Missouri.
One of our men, in the morning when I was forming
the company, was so agitated that it was a difficult
matter to get him to call his number. During
the day a ball cut a gash about skin deep and two
inches in length across the back of his neck, just
at the edge of his hair. As a result of this we were
two years in getting this man under fire again,
though he would not make an honest confession like
Gum, but would manage in some mysterious way to
keep out of danger. When at last we succeeded in
getting him in battle at Thompson's Station In
1863, he ran his iron ramrod through the palm of
his right hand and went to the rear. Rather than
risk himself in another engagement he deserted, in
the fall of that year, and went into the Federal
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Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, book, 1908; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27719/m1/60/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.