By The Book- 2/10/10

"For lunch break Sherman's party stopped at the home of a Reverend Heidt, who proved to be one of those duplicitous civilians that Major Hitchcock had come to loathe.  When Union infantry foraging his property came to the General with handfuls of rifle cartridges found hidden in his hen coop, the good cleric loudly proclaimed them planted by the Yankee soldiers.  Sherman's aide-de-camp, Major Lewis F. Drayton, examined the evidence with a grim smile.  "We don't draw ours from the Mason Arsenal," he said, displaying the manufacturing stamp on the cartridges.  Heidt stammered a new excuse, but Sherman was utterly uninterested in dispensing any justice this day.  The good reverend's house would be spared, much to Major Hitchcock's amazement."

-from "Southern Storm" by Noah Andre Trudeau