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Over the grave of the commanding officer is inscribed, 'Major-General, over the captain's is 'Brigadier, and over each young lieutenant is 'Colonel. They gained their promotion in death. I spent many months at Fort Mackinac with Archie; Archie was my nephew, a young lieutenant. In the short, bright summer came the visitors from below; all the world outside is 'below' in island vernacular.
When Kershaw was made Brigadier General, on the resignation of General Bonham, he had him promoted to Brigade Quartermaster with the rank of Major. On the resignation of Major McLaws, Division Quartermaster, he was made Division Quartermaster in his stead, and held this position during the war.
Barlow was supposed to be mortally wounded, but he recovered, and in a few months came back a brigadier, and was given a brigade in Howard's Eleventh Corps. Gen. Hancock was assigned to our division. By this time he had won the reputation of being a hard fighter, and this he justly held through the remainder of the war. In this battle I had a hand in an amusing incident that is worth recording.
This place is full of spies, of course. The very servants who wait on the General probably read all his letters and send copies of them to the enemy. The plan of campaign is probably as well known to What-'em- you-call-it Khan as it is to the Brigadier."
Acting upon this information, our brave brigadier accompanied a small party, for the purpose of dislodging this piquet, without giving them a shot at the whole division. We were a long time ascending; so that, by the time we got up, the residue of the army were at the bottom.
Had fate not willed it otherwise the captain might have rendered such distinguished service as would have merited at least recognition from Congress, perhaps a medal of honour, or even the star of a brigadier; while now all he can expect from a grateful country is some slight acknowledgment of his undoubted heroism in partaking of the food at the natives banquets, surely an intrepid performance!
The peasant, surprised and disturbed, drank his petit verre at one swallow, rose, and even more bent than in the morning, for the first steps after each rest were particularly painful, he started off, repeating: "Here I am, here I am." And he followed the brigadier. The mayor was waiting for him, seated in his arm-chair.
Again there was that horrid silence, broken only by the tramp of the sentinel outside the glassless windows. "Who?" asked the brigadier, in little more than a whisper. I suppose he expected it of me I suppose he knew that even for him, even in mercy to an old man whose only joy in life trembled at that moment in the balance, I could not perpetrate a cruel injustice.
Brigadier Sutton was detached with the artillery and pontoons, to lay bridges over the canal near Groulezen and over the Scarpe at Vitry, while the duke with the whole confederate army began his march for the same place about nine in the evening. He proceeded with such expedition, that by five in the morning he passed the river at Vitry.
She slipped out under the apple-red sky, through the streets where the shadows of the houses lay black as lacquer. Before the locked gates of the garage the brigadier lounged smoking his little, dry cigarettes. "We are on fire," he said, pointing up the street at the mountain. "What an evening!" "Yes, and my last!" she said. "Oh, may I have the key of the garage?" "But you've given up the car."
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