Noted Guerrillas, Or the Warfare of the Border: Being a History of the Lives and Adventures of Quantrell, Bill Anderson, George Todd, Dave Poole, Fletcher Taylor, Peyton Long, Oll Shepherd, Arch Clements, John Maupin, Tuck and Woot Hill, Wm; Gregg, Thomas

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The Guerrilla also had a dialect. In challenging an advene Ing enemy the cry of the regular was: ivho goes there That of the Guerrilla: W710 are you? The regular repeated the question thrice before firing; the Guerrilla only once. No higher appreciation had ever desperate courage, or devoted comradeship, or swift work in pitiless conflict, or furious gallop, or marvelous endurance, than the Guerrilla's favorite summing up: Good boy to the last. If upon a monument he had leave to write a folio, not a word more would be added to the epitaph. Sometimes the Guerrilla's dialect was picturesque; at other times monosyllabic. After Lawrence, and when Lane was pressing hard in pursuit, a courier from the rear rode hur riedly up to Quantrell and reported the Situation. How do they look? Enquired the chief. Like thirsty buffaloes making for awater course. Can't the rear guard check them? Can a grasshopper throw a locomotive off the track, Captain Quantrell?

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