Our old Colonel--George P.Este -- commands it.

We never liked him very well in camp, but I tell you he's a whole team in a fight, and he'd do so well there that all would take to him again, and he'd be real popular for a while." "Now, isn't that strange," broke in Andrews, who was given to fits of speculation of psychological phenomena: "None of us yearn to die, but the surest way to gain the affection of the boys is to show zeal in leading them into scrapes where the chances of getting shot are the best.
Courage in action, like charity, covers a multitude of sins.

I have known it to make the most unpopular man in the battalion, the most popular inside of half an hour.

Now, M.( addressing himself to me,) you remember Lieutenant H., of our battalion.

You know he was a very fancy young fellow; wore as snipish' clothes as the tailor could make, had gold lace on his jacket wherever the regulations would allow it, decorated his shoulders with the stunningest pair of shoulder knots I ever saw, and so on.