The day after Irving came to me I did not have him mustered into the service, but let him go wherever he wished to go. He went to Petersburg and along the lines, and returned just at night, with some of the clay from the "blow-up," with which he made pipes, which were in great demand at that time, and especially pipes made of "blow up" clay, as we called it. The reader will no doubt under stand that it was clay from the mine General Grant blew up. Next day I had Irving regularly mustered into the Confederate service.... p.121
History of the Fourth Regiment S. C. Volunteers, from the Commencement of the War until Lee's Surrender.
BY J. W. REID.
History of the Fourth Regiment S. C. Volunteers, from the Commencement of the War until Lee's Surrender.
BY J. W. REID.
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