Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 192
smokeless powder, willsurely sound the knell of the drum. Ten years ago the French army,whose imperial legions under Ney, Soult, andMacdonald, Napoleons most valorous mar-shals, had so often been led to victory by thedrum, decided to abolish it. It is related that upon news of the decree ofthe… … THE DRUMMER-BOY S DREAM. The Emperor himself dearly loved the rataplanof the drum, and is said always to have had thereveille beaten to awaken him each morning.Of all the regular organizations in the United 712 THE LAST OF THE DRUMS. [July,
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