Through how many vicissitudes ofarmy life had we passed since that time.
In all essential regards, the following pages are what they profess to be,--the author's personal recollections of three years of army life in active service in the field.
In the outstart it was not the author's design to write a connected story, but rather simply to prepare a few brief and hasty sketches of army life, drawn from his own personal experience, and suitable for magazine purposes.
At any rate we became used to army life in, what I thought, a very short time.
Being in the army before the war broke out enabled me to know something about both sides of army life, but peace times and war times are as different as day and night.
But it was always an easy resort to break the monotony of army life in training or rest areas, and always a menace to the type of manhood which we wanted to see among our American fighting men.
It was dominated by the mind of the mass, so that educated men had identical habits of mind with the ignorant on problems of army life.
Nevertheless Private Hinkey had already learned enough of Army life to feel certain that he was obliged to go to Sergeant Gray.
And now, Mr. Ferrers, as you appear to be wholly ignorant of Army life I think I will give you a mentor.
Private Clegg, who was an excellent storyteller, was relating one of his very very best, and it bore on Army life.
Hoping that this account of my army life may be highly appreciated and prized by my children and grandchildren and any others that may be interested, I will endeavor to give a complete account as I saw and recorded events.
It is with great sorrow that I sit down to resume this narrative of my army life, for since my last writing I have lost a dear son by death.
Moreover, he is letting in a flood of light upon the hidden details of army life in our frontier garrisons and amid the hills of the Indian country.
It is a good one, and Captain King ought to follow up the complete success he has made with other stories of army life on the American frontier.
She was a delicate girl of eighteen years and could not withstand the exposure incident to army life.
No sooner had some of the volunteers reached the front, and been subjected to the hardships and exposures of army life, than they fell sick, were sent to the hospital and were discharged without passing through any serious campaigns.
We became accustomed to army life and if we were ever to be in shape for active service we were then.
They were expected to stand the rough usage of army life.
A CYNIC'S VIEW OF ARMY LIFE Once I was a farmer boy, a tiller of the soil, I liked the work--I never was a chap to shirk from toil.
With his wide knowledge of army life, especially as lived in the frontier camps of the West after the Civil War, he was able to give his work a verisimilitude that added greatly to their popularity.
These three years of army life were of great value to my father.
Captain King's stories of army life are so brilliant and intense, they have such a ring of true experience, and his characters are so lifelike and vivid that the announcement of a new one is always received with pleasure.
Never for an instant had it occurred to her that at a moment's notice a home could be abandoned, a young wife left to mourn, a delightful station left to anybody who wanted the place, and all as an every-day incident of army life.
I felt it was a great break in my army life, but I did not know I was leaving the old regiment forever, the regiment with which I had been associated for so many years.
I had not attained that state of mind which came to me later in my army life.
We sat on the ground in a little circle around him, and listened to his comical and side-splitting stories of army life, and incidents in camp and field generally.
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