CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: BRAVE OLD CAPTAIN HALE ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 10 September 2001 ***************************************************************** TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson BRAVE OLD CAPTAIN HALE. The Confederates as a rule, knew but little about mili­tary tactics early in the war. This is taken from the "Rec­ollections of the Great War," as having occurred in 1861, at Oak Hilis: "When Siegel's shot began to fly pretty thick, brave, good old Captain Hale, who made no military preten­tions, called out to his company: 'Git in a straight row, here boys! This is the war you have all hearn talked about! Them's the cannon; them's the muskets; that great big screeching thing is a bung-shell; and them little fellows that sing like bumble-bees, are minnie-balls! Git in a straight row; we're gwine to work now!' And the brave old man and his gallant 'boys' did good work on that memorable day."