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Updated: July 25, 2025
"The cavalry! the cavalry!" exclaimed a young man, who now pressed forward into the mêlée. He wore a long, loose civilian's coat, a small oilskin-covered forage cap, and had for his sole military insignia an embroidered sword-belt, sustaining the gilt scabbard of the sabre that flashed in his hand.
I am thankful that Ruyven is in Sir George Covert's squadron. "And, dear, what do you think? Walter Butler was taken, three days since, by some of Sir George Covert's riders, while visiting his mother and sister at a farm-house near Johnstown. He was taken within our lines, it seems, and in civilian's clothes; and the next day he was tried by a drum-court at Albany and condemned to death as a spy.
He was dressed plainly in civilian's clothes, and his bushy white mustache gave his face a threatening look; the deep blue eyes, however, served to soften the features. The other man was evidently a carman; he wore a blue linen blouse, leathern shoes, knee-breeches and a large round hat.
I had supposed him to be a lieutenant in civilian's dress, for his dark mustache, small whiskers, and the military cut of his hair, which already began to be somewhat thin, made me add a lustrum to his twenty-one years.
He was to stay. Roland took his stand at the corner of a bookcase like a sentinel at his post. "Ah, ha!" exclaimed Bonaparte, seeing that Bernadotte was still attired in civilian's clothes, "you seem to have a positive horror of the uniform, general!" "Why the devil should I be in uniform at seven in the morning," asked Bernadotte, "when I am not in active service?" "You will be soon."
This man is a franc tireur, a civilian in civilian's garb, fighting against us. It is our law that all such who are caught be shot immediately." "Your Highness," said von Arnheim, "I have reason to think that the lady's story is correct. This man's daughter is her maid, and he is obviously a servant of her house."
"Soon the drums will roll, and the cannon boom soon Blucher will no longer be a childish and decrepit old man whom wiseacres think they can mock and laugh at soon Blucher will once more be a man who, sword in hand, will shout to his troops, 'Forward! charge the enemy! Great Heaven, Scharnhorst, and I have not even dressed becomingly I still wear a miserable civilian's coat!
The Civilian who'd be delightful if he had the military man's knowledge of the world and style, and the military man who'd be adorable if he had the Civilian's culture. 'Detestable word! Have Civilians culchaw? I never studied the breed deeply. 'Don't make fun of Jack's Service. Yes. They're like the teapoys in the Lakka Bazar good material but not polished.
The first thing, was the going to Washington of Christian and his class. He wrote to me about it. They went in haste and zeal; waiting for nothing; losing not a train; going by night. Some in civilian's dress; some in cadet clothes, with the black stripe torn off the leg; all eager for their work. What work? It was peaceful enough work just at first.
His uniform was therefore got out, brushed up, and put on, in advance of the visit. The Flag Officer, knowing General Taylor's aversion to the wearing of the uniform, and feeling that it would be regarded as a compliment should he meet him in civilian's dress, left off his uniform for this occasion.
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