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Chapter-1 Few small farmers owned horses.	Bruce 2024-10-5	05	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	06	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	05	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	06	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	05	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	06	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	06	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	05	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	09	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:00
Chapter-1 There was little snobbery in the Troop.	Bruce 2024-10-5	09	Bruce 2024-10-5 08:00
Chapter-1 Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.	Bruce 2024-10-5	010	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Able Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant.	Bruce 2024-10-5	09	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Ashley Wilkes was elected captain, because he was the best rider in the County and because his cool head was counted on to keep some semblance of order.	Bruce 2024-10-5	08	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 Everyone liked the four Tarleton boys and the three Fontaines, but regretfully refused to elect them, because the Tarletons got lickered up too quickly and liked to skylark, and the Fontaines had such quick, murderous tempers.	Bruce 2024-10-5	07	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:59
Chapter-1 The officers were elected by the members, for no one in the County had had any military experience except a few veterans of the Mexican and Seminole wars and, besides, the Troop would have scorned a veteran as a leader if they had not personally	Bruce 2024-10-5	08	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Until matters were settled, everyone referred to the organization as the Troop and, despite the high-sounding name finally adopted, they were known to the end of their usefulness simply as The Troop.	Bruce 2024-10-5	07	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Clayton Wild Cats, Fire Eaters, North Georgia Hussars, Zouaves, The Inland Rifles (although the Troop was to be armed with pistols, sabers and bowie knives, and not with rifles), The Clayton Grays, The Blood and Thunderers, The Rough and Readys,	Bruce 2024-10-5	09	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 Everyone had his own idea on that subject and was loath to relinquish it, just as everyone had ideas about the color and cut of the uniforms.	Bruce 2024-10-5	08	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:58
Chapter-1 The outfit was as yet unnamed, though not for want of suggestions.	Bruce 2024-10-5	010	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57
Chapter-1 The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.	Bruce 2024-10-5	010	Bruce 2024-10-5 07:57

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