ambulance-parties

Updated: May 23, 2025

In the armies of the older and more warlike nations of Europe, where the reins of discipline are much more tightly drawn than in our own, such skulking is prevented by regularly-organized ambulance-parties and by the prompt shooting down of any officer or soldier, not wounded, who dares to leave the ranks without orders.

Henry Morford - Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862