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Stories such as these were told
around the campfire during the American Civil War:
A young soldier left home to join the army. He told his girl
friend that he would write every day. After about six months, he received a
letter from his girlfriend that she was marrying someone else. He wrote home to
his family to find out who she married. The family wrote back and told him. It
was the ....mailman.
A soldier announced to all the men in his company and
surrounding companies that he was swearing off drinking and that all the other
soldiers should do the same. The other
soldiers teased him and gave him whiskey to get him drunk. Every night he ended up drunk, but every
morning he would be back preaching about the evils of alcohol. Finally one of his tent mates told him he
should give up preaching about the evils of drink since he always ended up
drink. “What” he asked, “and give up all
that free whiskey?”
Troops on both sides enjoyed a joke at the expense of
officers. One anecdote that made the
rounds involved General Ambrose Burnside.
General Grant and his staff in Virginia
stopped to rest at a plantation. Grant fell into conversation with the two
women of the house, when the portly Ambrose Burnside rode up, made an
exaggerated bow, and conversationally inquired as to whether the ladies had
ever seen so many Yankee soldiers before.
“Not at liberty, sir,” one of the women snapped back.
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