Rebels’ Recollections
Chapter 6
A REBEL'S RECOLLECTIONS. CHAPTER VI. LEE, JACKSON, AND SOME LESSER WORTHIES. THE story goes that when Napoleon thanked a private one day for some small service, giving him the complimentary title of "captain," the soldier replied with the question, "In what regiment, sire?" confident that this kind of recognition from the Little Corporal meant nothing [...]