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Excerpt from Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies
Infantry. I sailed from New York in November of that year to join my regiment in California, via Panama. On my arrival at San Francisco - at that time a small city built upon sandhills and ?ats, and distinguished for its foggy atmosphere I, together with one of my classmates, deemed it but proper that officers of the United States Army should go to the hotel in a carriage; but to our astonishment, on hailing a driver, we found the charge to be twenty dollars in gold. This aspect of affairs - our pay being only about sixty dollars a month compelled us to hold consultation with our brother officers and to adopt the only alternative: to proceed on foot to what ever quarters we desired to occupy.
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Infantry. I sailed from New York in November of that year to join my regiment in California, via Panama. On my arrival at San Francisco - at that time a small city built upon sandhills and ?ats, and distinguished for its foggy atmosphere I, together with one of my classmates, deemed it but proper that officers of the United States Army should go to the hotel in a carriage; but to our astonishment, on hailing a driver, we found the charge to be twenty dollars in gold. This aspect of affairs - our pay being only about sixty dollars a month compelled us to hold consultation with our brother officers and to adopt the only alternative: to proceed on foot to what ever quarters we desired to occupy.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
John Bell Hood
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780266931201
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Page Count - 374
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Contributors
Author
John Bell Hood
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333476465
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Page Count - 376
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