{"id":619,"date":"2021-08-15T03:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/?p=619"},"modified":"2021-08-15T03:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T03:05:21","slug":"a-tale-from-julius-a-hamby-pickett-county-civil-war-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/ofp\/a-tale-from-julius-a-hamby-pickett-county-civil-war-veteran\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale from Julius A. Hamby, Pickett County Civil War Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julia A. Hamby from TheBorderlands.org (via the Internet Archive)<\/p><\/div>\n

A young man named Bill Woody was fixing to join a Calvary unit of the Confederate Army when along came a fellow on a fine horse from Post Oak Springs. This fellow had a fancy bridle and saddle and a set of silver spurs. Those silver spurs fascinated him. After the fellow went on, Bill studied awhile and then got himself a couple of dogwood forks and carved out a right pretty pair of spurs. He then hunted a couple of long nails and hammered them out flat for stickers. Then he cut him some strips from a tanned groundhog hide. With these he finally managed to bind the dogwood spurs with the nail stickers on to his heels. Down in the field was a big old steer that they used for plowing. Bill mounted that steer and dug the spurs into the old steers flanks, and away he went on a dead run, snorting and bucking and headed for a big briar patch. When he nearly reached the patch he suddenly turned and Bill kept going in a straight line and landed in the middle of the patch. His Pa took the scythe and cut him out. This spoiled a good Calvary man because when Bill got over his ride he joined the infantry.<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.theborderlands.org\/juliushamby.htm (via the Internet Archive)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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