From Yauco to Las Marias (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544623221)

Because we had no Volunteers with us, we were not granted even one little word-spattering newspaper scribe, and so relinquished at the outset any fugitive hopes of glory that otherwise might have been entertained. We were out for business, -hard marching, hard living, hard fighting, -and the opening vista was fringed with gore. We were none of us the darlings of any particular State, nor the precious offspring of a peripatetic statesman with a practised pull. We were at no time decimated by disease through ignorant or insubordinate disregard of the primary principles of hygiene. We didn't write long wailing letters home because we were obliged to sleep on the damp ground, and had neither hot rolls, chocolate, nor marmalade for breakfast. We were ragged, hungry, tough, and faithful. In other words, we were regular army men, and, most distinctly, not Volunteer

Author: Karl Stephen Herrmann
ISBN-10: 1544623224
ISBN-13: 9781544623221
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/16/2017
Pages: 50
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d