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INTRODUCTION TO THE GARRISON
.....In another month Mrs. Colonel will catch chills and fever in her cold stone house, and Mrs. Mother-in-Law Major will be nursing her as as if she were very own mother. And as to Mrs. Colonel, why, she is only playing with the Second Lieutenant, just to assert her womanly self-respect, and before Spring she will marry him to to one of the Major's daughters, and she take as much interest in the match as though young Miss Major were the little girl of her own who died in a damp casemate lodging eighteen years ago.
The army of the United States occupies an annomolous position among the military forces of the world, for which the statutory limit of its size is in part accountable. The army is practically without at staff corps, and in time of peace they are lacking proper facilities for the broad study of the soldier's profession. Against the time of war there are miserably inefficient laws for increasing the size of the army, and, for another provision against the time of war, there is the vicious practice of political promotions and appointments.
As matters now are, it follows from the insignificant size of our army that the garrison of a United States fort,....is a garrison in name only. Soldiers enough to mount guard and a meager complement of officers are assigned to each one of the antiquated forts....
INTRODUCTION TO THE GARRISON
.....In another month Mrs. Colonel will catch chills and fever in her cold stone house, and Mrs. Mother-in-Law Major will be nursing her as as if she were very own mother. And as to Mrs. Colonel, why, she is only playing with the Second Lieutenant, just to assert her womanly self-respect, and before Spring she will marry him to to one of the Major's daughters, and she take as much interest in the match as though young Miss Major were the little girl of her own who died in a damp casemate lodging eighteen years ago.
The army of the United States occupies an annomolous position among the military forces of the world, for which the statutory limit of its size is in part accountable. The army is practically without at staff corps, and in time of peace they are lacking proper facilities for the broad study of the soldier's profession. Against the time of war there are miserably inefficient laws for increasing the size of the army, and, for another provision against the time of war, there is the vicious practice of political promotions and appointments.
As matters now are, it follows from the insignificant size of our army that the garrison of a United States fort,....is a garrison in name only. Soldiers enough to mount guard and a meager complement of officers are assigned to each one of the antiquated forts....
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Harper Brothers, (1899) 1st,Hdbk,,,Good