Volume 3 by John McElroy]@TWC D-Link book Volume 3 5/22 I looked down the line and saw Lieutenant H.at the right of Company -- , in command of it. I had not seen him since he came back, and I sung out: "'Hello, Lieutenant, how do you feel ?' "The reply came back, promptly, and with boyish cheerfulness: "'Bully, by -- --; I'm going to lead seventy men of Company into action today!' "How his boys did cheer him. When the bugle sounded--'forward, trot,' his company sailed in as if they meant it, and swept the Johnnies off in short meter. You never heard anybody say anything against Lieutenant after that." "You know how it was with Captain G., of our regiment," said one of the Fourteenth to another. "He was promoted from Orderly Sergeant to a Second Lieutenant, and assigned to Company D. |