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Updated: July 13, 2025
And to carry them out, look how many valuable officers, or officers who ought to be valuable, from the expense Uncle Sam has been at to give them educational advantages, are doing clerkly duty that civilians, our business men, our accountants, could as well, if not better, attend to in the offices of the Departments at Washington, in the Commissary and Quarter-Master's Departments, handling quills and cheese-knives instead of swords, and never giving 'the villainous smell of saltpetre' the slightest chance 'to come betwixt the wind and their nobility."
"I think we shall have to use our cheese-knives," suggested Life, as they were crowded forward in the passage to the fort. "No, Life! That would be a terrible slaughter of unarmed men, and I will not do it," replied Deck. "I would rather be taken prisoner than murder these helpless and terrified people." "Threaten them with the pistols if they don't get out of the way," the sergeant proposed.
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