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In the February following, Marion was dispatched to Bacon's Bridge on Ashley river, where Moultrie had established a camp for the reception of the militia of the neighborhood, as well as those which had been summoned from the interior. It was to Marion that Lincoln chiefly looked for the proper drilling of the militia.
Others, led by the skipper himself, set to work at drilling holes in several of the great rocks that lay in the green tide beyond the mouth of the harbor, their heavy crowns lifting only a yard or two above the surface of the twisting currents. All this was but the beginning of a task that would require weeks, perhaps months, of labor to complete.
He had accomplished his purpose, when the enemy was reinforced from Columbus, on the other side of the river, and though he brought off his command in safety he narrowly escaped capture himself. Fremont was superseded by Halleck, and for the next two months Grant was employed in organizing and drilling troops. Columbus, with 140 cannon and full of men and material, closed the Mississippi.
"It means that we've got to make this hole look like a barren hole, and keep it looking that way if we have to handle every piece of rock that comes out of it in our fingers," I said. "Just that," Barrett asserted, and then we went on with the drilling. We arranged our routine that evening over a supper of Gifford's preparing.
Overhead the birds sang incessantly, undisturbed even by the occasional drilling of an aëroplane. In the plains that lay beneath them, they could see the dim blue lines of the enemy debouching. They made Winn think of locusts. He had seen a plague once in Egypt.
And over the dunes is long grass, then grey and dry with winter, grass that was beaten under the wind into waves that surge and hiss. The beach is wide and level. There is no surf. The sea comes in in long, flat lines of white that wash unheralded about the feet of the cavalry horses drilling there.
He told her about the mill, phrasing his explanation in the simplest language; the presses drilling on white-hot metal; the great anvils; the forge; the machine-shop, with its lathes, where the rough surfaces of the shells were first rough-turned and then machined to the most exact measurements.
Thorough drilling was also given in the use of machine guns. Men were instructed how to repair guns, were told what to do in case certain parts of the gun were injured, were shown how to take guns apart and put them together again, and before the end of the drilling, these men became as efficient in machine gun work as Fritz himself.
If you'll be M-I-N-E, mine, I'll be T-H-I-N-E, thine, Oh, I love you, I love you all the T-I-M-E, time!" Mr. Wing bowed in acknowledgment of the cheer and his smile showed how much it had pleased him. "Great time you'll have drilling, with those heels of yours," he said teasingly. "I wish I could be there to see."
It was so much more important that I should get the undress uniform, to enable me to begin work, that I did not press the tailor quite so much as to the other clothes." "Are you ready to begin work, at once?" "The sooner the better," Harry replied. "Then I shall hand you over to the native officer, who has charge of the drilling of recruits.
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