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BEING THE NARRATIVE OF BATTERY A OF THE 101st FIELD ARTILLERY

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between two others, tried to pull your slicker over your head, and then spent the rest of your waking hours cursing the rain that persisted in dripping down your neck.

As the train rumbled along through the darkness, and the discouraged candle-ends flickered down on our prostrate forms, we recalled and scoffed at the tender-foot fears, begot of ignorance, which had ac­ companied us six weeks before under like conditions. How different we felt now! Had we not passed our baptism of fire? Did we not now know what war was? Had we not won through our apprenticeship in this most exacting of trades?—No! a thousand times, no! But we thought we had, and, poor babes that we were, we enjoyed the greatest confidence and peace that we had known since the United States entered the war. . . .

 

 

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