All this was known to Lee but this unexpected meeting at a moment when privates were being mowed down like grass was a terrible shock and strain.
Another illustration of snobbishness, this time in Australia, was when some officers at a race-meeting instructed the committee to refuse admittance to the saddling paddock and grand stand to all privates and N.
Some of our boys resented this discrimination while not on parade, for many of the privates were, in social life, in higher standing than the majority of the officers.
Any of our privates was able to buy out the stock of a whole store, which was not worth more than a pound or two.
Then, assigned to a tent with Murray and Reed, two cadet privates of the class with whom he had never had dealings and by whom he was treated with cold civility, he made no complaint, nor did he seem to seek their better graces.
Two days later both Graham and Connell were on the detail again; the First Class privateshad been relieved from guard duty as such, and their names placed on a roster to serve as junior officers of the guard.
Fuselli thought he caught the words: "privates first-class," and his heart started thumping hard.
He shared his bread with one of his privates who lived to remind him of this night when the Republican general had become the Emperor of France.
She was obliged to give up cadet officers for privates, and then first-class privates for third-class privates, as the hotel waiter had explained to Sam.
All the natives were dressed in the native uniform, and the five white men were clad as privates in the invading army and held as prisoners.
Bombs were dropped on a party of engineers, killing one of them, and two privates were victims of a German aviator's explosive over a wood in which they were camped.
As soon as the privates had the power to elect their own officers, the position of a major-general in the militia ceased to be respectable, and few gentlemen could be induced to serve.
These men receive no pay, so that their neat appearance on such occasions bespeaks a certain degree of wealth among them; neither are the privates nor any other persons belonging to these regiments paid for their services.
The officers and men of the Henrique regiments are so united to each other, that the privates and subalterns are less liable to be oppressed by any white man in office even than the soldiers of the mulatto regiments.
Believing that they had been fired upon by Union troops, Captain Place, with privates Marcus Livingstone of Co.
One of those letters, written on a drum-head, portrays a scene as follows: "Nearly all the privates in Co.
The colonel also gave instruction to the non-commissioned officers, and privates who yearned for advancement.
Two REME personnel (I was one of them) armed with our SMLE's and two privates of the Royal Sussex Regiment armed with Bren guns got into position after dark and waited for the intruders to appear.
The only practicable expedient is the influence over the privates of thoroughly trustworthy elements in their midst.
Numerous little coteries exist amongst the men enlisted from the same families and districts, and the result is that the bonds of discipline between non-commissioned officers and privates tend to become relaxed.
Among other supernumeraries sent in her, were a serjeant and two privates of the Royal African Corps.
Many of its privates are distinctly gentlemen of breeding and character.
Perhaps privateshave no right to perceive the beautiful.
In the dining-room privates were hammering away upon typewriters, and officers were supplying them with copy.
The party was made up of Captains Stevens, Cook, and Tidd, and Privates O.
The privates shall be divided into bands or messes of seven each numbering from one to eight, with a corporal to each, numbered like his band.
Twenty- one commissioned officers, several of whom afterward died of their wounds, and 242 noncommissioned officers and privates were wounded.
Eight British privates were killed; Major Campbell, a captain, an ensign, and seventeen privates were made prisoners.
Thirty-eight commissioned officers were killed upon the field, and 593 noncommissioned officers and privates were slain and missing.
Washington wrote to General Howe in the beginning of April: "It is a fact not to be questioned that the usage of our prisoners while in your possession, the privates at least, was such as could not be justified.
Officers were insulted and often struck for attempting to afford some of the miserable privates a small relief.
In this battle the British had ten commissioned officers and upwards of 100 privates killed.
On a signal given, the greater part of the noncommissioned officers andprivates paraded under arms, declaring their intention of marching to the seat of Congress at Philadelphia to obtain a redress of grievances, or to abandon the service.
I've been a private, bunkie, such as privates seldom are, Borne my share of public censure, let it heal without a scar.
Five sleds and company property are left at the monastery in charge of two privates who are not fit to march further.
This appears not to have extended beyond the privates in ranks, and was handled by the regimental commander with discretion and good judgment.
The British lost one officer killed, one wounded, two privates killed, two missing and ten wounded.
Now Sergeant Brimmer stepped over to Hal and Noll with military stride, saying briskly: "Recruit Privates Overton and Terry dismissed.
Then there are a few old-time privates in each company--just enough to give the recruits some steadiness.
Privates Denton and Burke will fall out and report as orderlies," he commanded.
Here are the papers for Privates Overton and Terry.
Hardly had Sergeant Gray closed the door when Hal thought he had taken the measure of the eight other privates present.
But this is the first tour of guard duty for Privates Overton and Terry, and it is considered essential that they first of all learn to walk post and become familiar with the duties of sentries.
First Lieutenant Hampton and the sergeants hastened to their posts, while the corporals and privates went to their places in the ranks.
The adjutant proved to be a captain of infantry with a corporal and twoprivates on duty in his office as clerks.
In a company of infantry the squad consists of seven privates and a corporal.
At that the glee in the faces ofPrivates Denton and Burke faded somewhat.
Orderly detail would have fallen to Privates Overton and Terry, who present the most soldierly appearance," continued the adjutant, in his official tone.
Consequently, every regiment in America was ordered to select "the most enterprising officers and the most active of the privates with the appellation of Rangers.
The dashing young officer had as privates in the ranks of his company such men as James L.
Dudley, a native of Lowndes County, andPrivates Daniel C.
