Explore "A Man for A' That" by Arthur Willis Colton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
COMPANY A was cut up at Antietam, so that there was not enough of it / left for useful purposes, and Deacon Andrew Terrell became a member / of Company G, which nicknamed him "is huliness." Company A came from / Dutchess County. There was a little white church in the village of / Brewster, and a little white house with a meagre porch where that good / woman, Mrs. Terrell, had stood and shed several tears as the deacon / walked away down the street, looking extraordinary in his regimentals. / She dried her eyes, settled down to her sewing in that quiet south / window, and hoped he would remember to keep his feet dry and not lose / the cough drops. That part of Dutchess County was a bit of New England / spilled over. New England has been spilling over these many years.
The deacon took the cough drops regularly; he kept his gray chin beard / trimmed with a pair of domestic scissors, and drilling never persuaded / him to move his large frame with other than the same self-conscious / restraint; his sallow face had the same set lines. There is something in / the Saxon's blood that will not let him alter with circumstances, and it / is by virtue of it that he conquers in the end.