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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 5, 23 May 1884, Page 23

The regiment in the Army of the Cumberland known as the Indiana Jayhawkera was about as proficient as any that we had, but the Eighth Missouri, which was commanded by Ge&. Morgan L. Smith, certainly beat auything I ever met. They would steal anything, and it did not make any difference whether they had any use for it or not. When we were in front of Vicksburg they actually stole a grave, and it happened in this way : The Kighth Missouri was encamped alongside of my command. One of our men died during the night, and I gave orders that a detail be sent to dig a grave. The ground was of hard clay, and it took the men some time tj complete their work. They returned to camp, and we took the dead soldier to his last resting place. When we arrived we found the grave filled and a mound showing that some one had evidently been there. Upon investigation I afterward ascertained that one of the Eighth Missouri had also died during the night, and that they had waited until my men had finished their work, when they quietly took possession and actually stole our grave. Steal 1 Why, those men wonld steal anything — even a march on the enemy, and candor compel* me to My that they were particularly good at it.— Boston Trdvttter.