ONE:"Sir, I congratulate you. That was splendidly done. I was just getting on to that fellow when you went down. I watched you through my glass, and saw you fetch him. You are entitled to all our thanks."
Watching the Bridge Burners at Work 259"Where is that Yard-Boss? Where is that Yard-Boss? Find him and send him to me, immediately."THE long fast had sharpened the zest the boys had for their first "soldier-breakfast." Until they got down to "real soldier-living" they could not feel that they were actually in the service. To have this formal initiation in the historic city of Nashville, far in the interior of the Southern Confederacy, was an exhiliarating event. The coarse fare became viands of rare appetency."How did I know it? How does any man know that another is drunk? He was boisterous, excited and yellingthat kind of a drunk."