The Brigade Commander

The Brigade Commander

The Colonel was the idol of his bragging old regiment and of the bragging brigade which for the last six months he had commanded. He was the idol, not because he was good and gracious, not because he spared his soldiers or treated them as fellow-citizens, but because he had led them to victory and made them famous. If a man will win battles and give his brigade a right to brag loudly of its doings, he may have its admiration and even its enthusiastic devotion, though he be as pitiless and as wicked as Lucifer. Its nothin to me what the Currnell is in prrivit, so long as he shows us how to whack the rrebs, said Major Gahogan, commandant of the Old Tenth. Moses saw God in the burrnin bussh, an bowed down to it, an worr-shipt it. It wasnt the bussh he worrshipt; it was his God that was in it. An I worrship this villin of a Currnell (if he is a villin) because hes almighty and gives us the victry. Hes nothin but a human burrnin bussh, perhaps, but hes got the god of war in um. Adjetant Wallis, its along time between dhrinks, as I think ye was sayin, an with rayson. See if ye cant confiscate a canteen of whiskee somewhere in the camp. Bedad, if I cant buy it Ill stale it. Were goin to fight tomorry, an it may be its the last chance well have for a dhrink, unless theres more likr now in the other worrld than Dives got. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 23182
Author: De Forest, John William
Release Date: Oct 24, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English