Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 220
Four guns crews, of seven-teen boys each, make up a division, which is incharge of an officer. The drills are varied andinteresting, and pertain more particularly to thatpart of the training which makes fighting men.The boys are exercised in loading, pointing, andfiring the heavy cannon which… … AT CHURCH ON THE GCN-DECK. oiled until it looks like a band of reddish gold abovethe water-line. The ship having received her shareof attention, the boys are given a half-hour inwhich to prepare for early inspection, at whichthe master-at-arms and a number of subordinatesmake a critical observation…
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