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Clinical thermometers cracked if they were left lying about on tables. Our staff was getting seriously depleted. No Tommy had to work so hard as those hospital orderlies, and it is not surprising that our casualties in sick men were very heavy. Clerks in the office became ward masters at a moment's notice. But in spite of all this the spirit of the place remained unshaken.
The four ranks of beds, without a crease on their brown blankets, are bare of occupants. The Sister and her probationers have vanished. The Pack Store orderlies have carried off their loot of dirty khaki tunics and trousers for the fumigator. The clerical V.A.D.'s have gone to enter "particulars" in ledgers and card-indices. The cookhouse people have removed their cocoa urn.
"Is Professor Kennedy here?" I heard a voice inquire. "I'm one of the orderlies at the City Hospital, next to the Morgue, where Dr. Leslie has his laboratory. I've a message for Profesor Kennedy, if he's in." Kennedy took the envelope, which bore the stamp of Dr. Leslie's department, and tore it open. "My dear Kennedy," he read, in an undertone.
The unfinished condition of the apartments, as well as an abundant expenditure of tact and diplomacy on our part, saved us from other applicants, and we were beginning to flatter ourselves that we should escape this much-dreaded imposition when, late in the afternoon, two young naval officers called, accompanied by orderlies and pack-mules.
The Fifth U.S. cavalry attached to the division headquarters was deployed across the field and, together with the officers and orderlies of the division staff did much toward preventing the infantry going to the rear. The rule about moving toward the sound of battle is succinctly stated by General Merritt in his letter and does not admit of controversy.
After three attempts we had given up trying to keep telephone touch with the batteries, and I had detailed mounted orderlies to be in readiness.
What am I going to do, at all?" The boys hurried away, without reply for Colonel Tempe was waiting for them and, on the way to headquarters, mentioned Tim's grief at parting with them. The general received the lads most kindly and, at once, granted them four days' leave to go to Dijon, to procure uniform. Colonel Tempe then said: "You do not want orderlies, do you, general?"
Too many courts-martial in any command are evidence of poor discipline and inefficient officers. For the rapid transmission of orders in an army covering a large space of ground, the magnetic telegraph is by far the best, though habitually the paper and pencil, with good mounted orderlies, answer every purpose.
When Custer learned that I was at the Post he asked that I be assigned to duty with him. I reported to him at daylight the next day none too early, as Custer, with his staff and orderlies, was already in the saddle. When I was introduced to Custer he glanced disapprovingly at the mule I was riding. "I am glad to meet you, Cody," he said. "General Sherman has told me about you.
A hop, a splutter, a rattle, and then a snarling roll of musketry broke on the question, not from the hill, but far on our left front, where the Dragoon Guards were scouting. On that the thunder of galloping orderlies and hoarse yells of command advance! in line! waggon supply! and with rattle and thunder the batteries tore past, wheeled, unlimbered as if they broke in halves.
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