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Updated: May 2, 2025
He just takes a dislike to the way a man looks or acts, or the way he parts his hair, looks at him with his steely-gray eyes, unt says coldly: 'Put him in the bull-pen. In the bullpen the poor devil goes, unt the next time General Bragg gets an idea that the discipline of the army is running down, unt he must stiffen it up with a few executions, he orders all the men that happen to be in the bull-pen taken out unt shot."
As carpenters were everywhere busy in camp putting up more necessary buildings the place officially known as the guard-house was more of a bullpen. Posts had been driven deeply in the form of a rectangle, and on these barbed wire had been laid to a height of nine feet.
Plainly the recruits were chafing under the lash of the corporal's tongue. But Barrow, a young man of twenty-two, who had received his chevrons after only four months of service, was in no mind to be easily pleased to-day. "You're the most stupid squad in the regiment!" the young non-com went on. "Your place is in the bullpen, not in the ranks."
"But here in this blackened horror they call the 'seat of war' this festering bullpen, choked with dreary regiments, all alike, all in filthy blue here individuals vanish, men vanish. The schoolgirl dream of man dies here forever.
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