Vulgar words in Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals - As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac (Page 1)
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Reconnoissance concluded--What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited--Comparative Merits of Black Union Men and White Rebels--A Ground Blast, and its effect upon a Pigeon-hole General--Staff Officers Striking a Snag in the Western Virginia Captain--Why the People have a right to expect Active Army Movements--Red Tape and the Sick List--Pigeon-holing at Division Head-quarters, 100 CHAPTER X.
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he'd pray with hands and eyes both open, in such a way that every one believed it would have immediate attention; that God would damn the Rebellion; and may be next day he'd have Long Tom doing its full share in hurrying the rebels themselves to damnation.
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What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited--Comparative Merits of Black Union Men and White Rebels--A Ground Blast, and its effect upon a Pigeon-hole General--Staff Officers Striking a Snag in the Western Virginia Captain--Why the People have a right to expect active Army Movements--Red Tape and the Sick List--Pigeon-holing at Division Head-quarters._ In the misty morning arms were taken and the forward resumed.
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When I'm on de one side de jump-high is on de oder; and if I go back widout one he'll cuss me for a d----d stumbling woolly-head.
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our Hookers, Heintzelmans, Hancocks, and men of like kidney?
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nor near the other, except to damn it in such a style as to draw down the rebuke of a superior officer," replied the man addressed.