fling-away-able

Updated: May 26, 2025

The men had flung away whatever was fling-away-able during the charge of the morning and the subsequent hot march as men always will, under like circumstances and now they found themselves blanketless, stockingless, overcoatless, in cold and damp trenches, and compelled by the steady firing to lie still, or adopt a horizontal, crawling mode of locomotion, which did not admit of speed enough to quicken the circulation of the blood.

Dudley Landon Vaill - The County Regiment: A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer: Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer: Infantry, in the Civil War