 | Lloyd Lewis - 1993 - 744 páginas
...frenzy. It angered him, Puritan that he was, to see how airily the cavaliers took the job of soldiering. "A very large proportion of the rank and file had never performed a day's labor," he said, and one of his brother officers admitted that he had never seen a military drill nor heard... | |
 | Kenneth Powers Williams - 1997 - 628 páginas
...commending the high spirits and eagerness for victory of his soldiers, said they could not march, and added, "A very large proportion of the rank and file had never performed a day's labor." The roads, narrow, and traversing a densely wooded country, became almost impassable after the heavy... | |
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But few regiments of my command had ever made a day's march. A very large proportion of the rank and file had never performed a day's labor. 
