Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 50
At a quarter to six in the earlyFall the bang of a field-piece cracksthe stillness of the frosty air, fol-lowed by the rattle of drums andthe piping of fifes. Immediatelythe field-music starts on a livelymarch for barracks, and, passingthrough the reverberating sally-port, concludes its fracas in… … SHKLTER-TENT DRILL. think it imperative to heed the summons. Thereyet remain two or three minutes before the drumscease their clatter, at the end of which each manmust be clothed and in his right mind, in ranks,ready for roll-call and for battle, if need be; al-though I much fear that if the enemy…
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