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Rick Saunders
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“Pediculus vestimenti,”
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
“We had no planning nor thinking to do, and the world could just wag as it willed.”
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
“Halt! Who comes there?" "Friend, with the countersign!" was the answer. "Dismount, friend, advance, and give the countersign!" cried the sentinel. Kuh-sock, went the fine, high-top boots of the rider in the mud, and leading his horse, he walked up, gave the talismanic word, to which the response was made, "Countersign's correct! Pass, friend.”
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
“No cymbal clashed, no clarion rang, Still were the pipe and drum; Save heavy tread and armor's clang, The sullen march was dumb.”
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
“I think that a man who has never spent some wakeful hours in the night, by himself, out in the woods, has simply missed one of the most interesting parts of life. The night is the time when most of the wild things are astir, and some of the tame ones, too. There was some kind of a very small frog in the swamps and marshes near Bolivar that gave forth about the most plaintive little cry that I ever heard.”
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
― The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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