- Joined
- Feb 5, 2017
Confederate Veteran 1862
In my regiment there was a Corporal McVay, with a full suit of red ringlets, and the boys would tease him often about his curls. On one occasion he went on a scout, and the entire scout was captured, but one of them made his escape, and he gave a most amusing account of McVay’s experience with his captors. One of them insisted on having one of the curls to send to his sweetheart at home to make her think he was flirting with a red-haired little girl from Dixie, and one and another would chaff him until he was nearly wild in helpless rage, and it is safe to say if McVay got back to his command his curls came off!
In my regiment there was a Corporal McVay, with a full suit of red ringlets, and the boys would tease him often about his curls. On one occasion he went on a scout, and the entire scout was captured, but one of them made his escape, and he gave a most amusing account of McVay’s experience with his captors. One of them insisted on having one of the curls to send to his sweetheart at home to make her think he was flirting with a red-haired little girl from Dixie, and one and another would chaff him until he was nearly wild in helpless rage, and it is safe to say if McVay got back to his command his curls came off!