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In
the
beginning
,
the
Troop
had
been
recruited
exclusively
from
the
sons
of
planters
,
a
gentleman
's
outfit
,
each
man
supplying
his
own
horse
,
arms
,
equipment
,
uniform
and
body
servant
.
But
rich
planters
were
few
in
the
young
county
of
Clayton
,
and
,
in
order
to
muster
a
full-strength
troop
,
it
had
been
necessary
to
raise
more
recruits
among
the
sons
of
small
farmers
,
hunters
in
the
backwoods
,
swamp
trappers
,
Crackers
and
,
in
a
very
few
cases
,
even
poor
whites
,
if
they
were
above
the
average
of
their
class
.
These
latter
young
men
were
as
anxious
to
fight
the
Yankees
,
should
war
come
,
as
were
their
richer
neighbors
;
but
the
delicate
question
of
money
arose
.
Few
small
farmers
owned
horses
.
They
carried
on
their
farm
operations
with
mules
and
they
had
no
surplus
of
these
,
seldom
more
than
four
.
The
mules
could
not
be
spared
to
go
off
to
war
,
even
if
they
had
been
acceptable
for
the
Troop
,
which
they
emphatically
were
not
.
As
for
the
poor
whites
,
they
considered
themselves
well
off
if
they
owned
one
mule
.
The
backwoods
folks
and
the
swamp
dwellers
owned
neither
horses
nor
mules
.
They
lived
entirely
off
the
produce
of
their
lands
and
the
game
in
the
swamp
,
conducting
their
business
generally
by
the
barter
system
and
seldom
seeing
five
dollars
in
cash
a
year
,
and
horses
and
uniforms
were
out
of
their
reach
.
But
they
were
as
fiercely
proud
in
their
poverty
as
the
planters
were
in
their
wealth
,
and
they
would
accept
nothing
that
smacked
of
charity
from
their
rich
neighbors
.
So
,
to
save
the
feelings
of
all
and
to
bring
the
Troop
up
to
full
strength
,
Scarlett
's
father
,
John
Wilkes
,
Buck
Munroe
,
Jim
Tarleton
,
Hugh
Calvert
,
in
fact
every
large
planter
in
the
County
with
the
one
exception
of
Angus
MacIntosh
,
had
contributed
money
to
completely
outfit
the
Troop
,
horse
and
man
.
The
upshot
of
the
matter
was
that
every
planter
agreed
to
pay
for
equipping
his
own
sons
and
a
certain
number
of
the
others
,
but
the
manner
of
handling
the
arrangements
was
such
that
the
less
wealthy
members
of
the
outfit
could
accept
horses
and
uniforms
without
offense
to
their
honor
.
The
Troop
met
twice
a
week
in
Jonesboro
to
drill
and
to
pray
for
the
war
to
begin
.
Arrangements
had
not
yet
been
completed
for
obtaining
the
full
quota
of
horses
,
but
those
who
had
horses
performed
what
they
imagined
to
be
cavalry
maneuvers
in
the
field
behind
the
courthouse
,
kicked
up
a
great
deal
of
dust
,
yelled
themselves
hoarse
and
waved
the
Revolutionary-war
swords
that
had
been
taken
down
from
parlor
walls
.
Those
who
,
as
yet
,
had
no
horses
sat
on
the
curb
in
front
of
Bullard
's
store
and
watched
their
mounted
comrades
,
chewed
tobacco
and
told
yarns
.
Or
else
engaged
in
shooting
matches
.
There
was
no
need
to
teach
any
of
the
men
to
shoot
.
Most
Southerners
were
born
with
guns
in
their
hands
,
and
lives
spent
in
hunting
had
made
marksmen
of
them
all
.
From
planters
'
homes
and
swamp
cabins
,
a
varied
array
of
firearms
came
to
each
muster
.
There
were
long
squirrel
guns
that
had
been
new
when
first
the
Alleghenies
were
crossed
,
old
muzzle-loaders
that
had
claimed
many
an
Indian
when
Georgia
was
new
,
horse
pistols
that
had
seen
service
in
1812
,
in
the
Seminole
wars
and
in
Mexico
,
silver-mounted
dueling
pistols
,
pocket
derringers
,
double-barreled
hunting
pieces
and
handsome
new
rifles
of
English
make
with
shining
stocks
of
fine
wood
.
Drill
always
ended
in
the
saloons
of
Jonesboro
,
and
by
nightfall
so
many
fights
had
broken
out
that
the
officers
were
hard
put
to
ward
off
casualties
until
the
Yankees
could
inflict
them
.
It
was
during
one
of
these
brawls
that
Stuart
Tarleton
had
shot
Cade
Calvert
and
Tony
Fontaine
had
shot
Brent
.
The
twins
had
been
at
home
,
freshly
expelled
from
the
University
of
Virginia
,
at
the
time
the
Troop
was
organized
and
they
had
joined
enthusiastically
;
but
after
the
shooting
episode
,
two
months
ago
,
their
mother
had
packed
them
off
to
the
state
university
,
with
orders
to
stay
there
.
They
had
sorely
missed
the
excitement
of
the
drills
while
away
,
and
they
counted
education
well
lost
if
only
they
could
ride
and
yell
and
shoot
off
rifles
in
the
company
of
their
friends
.
"
Well
,
let
's
cut
across
country
to
Abel
's
,
"
suggested
Brent
.
"
We
can
go
through
Mr.
O'Hara
's
river
bottom
and
the
Fontaine
's
pasture
and
get
there
in
no
time
.
"
"
We
ain
'
gwine
git
nothin
'
ter
eat
'
cept
possum
an
'
greens
,
"
argued
Jeems
.
"
You
ai
n't
going
to
get
anything
,
"
grinned
Stuart
.
"
Because
you
are
going
home
and
tell
Ma
that
we
wo
n't
be
home
for
supper
.
"
"
No
,
Ah
ain
'
!
"
cried
Jeems
in
alarm
.
"
No
,
Ah
ain
'
!
Ah
doan
git
no
mo
'
fun
outer
havin
'
Miss
Beetriss
lay
me
out
dan
y'
all
does
.
Fust
place
she
'll
ast
me
huccome
Ah
let
y'
all
git
expelled
agin
.
An
'
nex
'
thing
,
huccome
Ah
din
'
bring
y'
all
home
ternight
so
she
could
lay
you
out
.
An
'
den
she
'll
light
on
me
lak
a
duck
on
a
June
bug
,
an
'
fust
thing
Ah
know
Ah
'll
be
ter
blame
fer
it
all
.
Ef
y'
all
doan
tek
me
ter
Mist
'
Wynder
's
,
Ah
'll
lay
out
in
de
woods
all
night
an
'
maybe
de
patterollers
git
me
,
'
cause
Ah
heap
ruther
de
patterollers
git
me
dan
Miss
Beetriss
when
she
in
a
state
.
"
The
twins
looked
at
the
determined
black
boy
in
perplexity
and
indignation
.
