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Huerta took his time about obeying this order, and, when he reported in Mexico City, obtained a sick-leave to have his eyes treated. Huerta was nearly blind when Felix Diaz's revolt broke out in Vera Cruz in October, 1912, and probably thus escaped being drawn into that unsuccessful demonstration.
Gregory, Frank Preston and Stuart had been left in Winchester in the enemy's lines severely wounded. Singleton had been captured at Port Republic, and others were off on sick-leave. My bedfellow, Walter Packard, had contracted fever in the Chickahominy swamps, from which he soon after died. He had been left at the house of a friend in Hanover County, attended by his brother.
Summary of captures Thomas suggests winter-quarters Grant orders continued activity Schofield's proposal to move the corps to the East Grant's correspondence with Sherman Schofield's suggestion adopted Illness I ask for "sick-leave" Do not use it Promotion Reinforcements March from Columbia to Clifton Columns on different roads Western part of the barrens Fording Buffalo River An illumined camp Dismay of the farmer Clifton on the Tennessee Admiral Lee Methods of transport Weary waiting Private grumbling Ordered East Revulsion of spirits On the transport fleet Thomas's frame of mind at close of the campaign.
"Why fort, if one might know?" "I've been told that you were awfully well barricaded there, prepared to stand any sort of siege." Canning seemed quite amused. He declared, on the contrary, that neglect and unpopularity were his portion in a strange land. "I'm an invalid on sick-leave," said he, "and my orders are to go to bed. Please don't smile, for it's all quite true ..."
"Well," said the doctor, a few weeks afterwards, as Jim was going home on his coveted sick-leave, "Mr. Thomas Carlyle calls fibs wind-bags. If that singular remedy would work to such a charm with all my men, I'd tell lies with impunity. Good by, Jim, and the best of good luck to you." "The same to you, Doctor, and I hope you may always find a friend in need, to lie for you.
He had already been hauled over the coals for his arrival on Sunday and his indecorous appearance in church after service had begun. "It does not appear to me that you are at all in need of sick-leave," said Mrs. de Tracy suspiciously. Carnaby, sensitive for all his robustness, flushed hotly, and then became impertinent. "My pulse is twenty beats too quick still, after quinsy.
Shortly after our arrival, my brother David, who had been absent on sick-leave, returned from home, bringing a large mess-chest of delicious edibles, which we enjoyed immensely, having Willie Preston, from Lexington, who had just joined the College company, to dine with us.
Ah! ye lazy ones of earth, if ye gain something by unbounded leisure ye lose much. Stay we will not preach on that text. It needs not! To return: Phil and Pax found Tottie and May at The Rosebud as they had anticipated the latter being free for a time on sick-leave and the four went in for a holiday, as Pax put it, neck and crop.
Some one found out how to raise a swelling, and there was quite an epidemic of swollen wrists and ankles. A little lump of earth in a handkerchief, pounded gently on the place, for twenty minutes or so, will bring the desired result. Soap-pills will raise the temperature. Tobacco, eaten, will derange the heart. These are well-known methods of achieving sick-leave. I had a way all my own.
Colonel Schaefer, of the Second Missouri Infantry, had been absent on sick-leave during the Kentucky campaign, but about this date he returned to duty, and by seniority fell in command of the second brigade. He was of German birth, having come from Baden, where, prior to 1848, he had been a non-commissioned officer in the service of his State.
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