God heavens, George, stop seeing Jesse James around every corner - we´re in Maine! Now put the rifle down before you accidentally shoot a horse ... again.
Their confidence sky-high following the capture of the Yankee ambulance, the boys moved on to the slightly more ambitious aim of downing one of Thaddeus Lowe's Observation Balloons ...
Horse on the left thinking " go ahead and pull the trigger right behind me you idiot -I dare you!"
Guy in wagon " I can't even look-got my hand on the reins cause as soon as he shoots the horses will spook, rear up, land and the left one will buck and kick him right in the face and take off. Yee-ha!"
"Who's in the ambulance?"
"The general told me not to say."
(Actual conversation between the driver of the ambulance containing Stephen Ramseur, and the Federal who captured it at Cedar Creek.)