Quartermasters at Petersburg

​In "The Haversack," in The Land We Love V (September 1868), No. V, 443, D.H. Hill shares an entertaining anecdote of an over-eager, and not so bright, Confederate soldier:

“The men used to call shot or shell that passed over head and went far to the rear, ‘Quarter-master hunters.’ Upon one occasion, at Petersburg, during a severe artillery fire, a gallant fellow with more humor than prudence – jumped upon the parapet, and pointing to a shell then passing over, exclaimed: “A little more to the right, the Quarter-masters are down behind that hill.”