This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...eight privates under a sergeant or a corporal, often accompanied by an officer in the daytime. This patrol had authority to enter saloons and other places and search them for soldiers and demand their passes;.every soldier on the street was halted, and if he had no pass or a poor excuse he was told to falFmto ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...eight privates under a sergeant or a corporal, often accompanied by an officer in the daytime. This patrol had authority to enter saloons and other places and search them for soldiers and demand their passes;.every soldier on the street was halted, and if he had no pass or a poor excuse he was told to falFmto the ranks and march with the patrol until it repassed or returned to the main guard, where he was turned over to the sergeant, who recorded his name, company and regiment and then locked him up. There was, however, considerable leniency both on the part of the officers and the non-commissioned officersTn command bTthe patrol; if the soldier were sober and had some sort of a plausible excuse, he was often simply ordered to get out of town quickly and return to his camp. It was the drunks that gave us trouble, when we tried to march them in the ranks. In some extreme cases we took them to the guard-house in a borrowed hand-cart. One day the patrol arrived just in time to save the "Eagle Bakery," where a drunken soldier was wrecking the place because he failed to get a baked eagle he had ordered. About this time a very young officer named William Ki3d, who belonged to a prominent New York family, joined my company as second lieutenant. He was a civil appointee and knew very little about drill or military matters in general, but was trying to learn. He was well liked by the men for his genial nature. Often when I was on patrol with him he would say, "Now, Corporal, you head her in any direction you like and don't march too fast." He let many a soldier off with a reprimand such as, "If I catch you in town again without a pass I'll have you court-martialed and shot before sunrise." Sometimes he stopped at a cigar...
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8vo. 356 pp. Original gray cloth. Title and author stamped in gilt on spine, with title stamped in gilt on front board with white maltese cross beneath symbol. Front hinge cracked. A fine presentation copy to James B. Fiske of a scarce book. Meyers describes his journey to Fort Lookout. Having joined the army enlisting in the 2nd Infantry at 12 years and eight months. At fourteen he arrived on the Dakota frontier and gives a graphic account of the frontier service among the Sioux having a detailed eye and an interest in their language. During the Civil War he served in the Fifth Corps in which he describes events with a like eye for detail. Dornbusch II 1634 Graff 2778 Howes M 574.
