If they should reach a captaincy in the line before they arrived at a majority in the staff, they would elect which commission they would retain.

In the 4th infantry, in 1844, at least six line officers were on duty in the staff, and therefore permanently detached from the regiment.

Under these circumstances I gave up everything like a special course of reading, and only read thereafter for my own amusement, and not very much for that, until the war was over.

I kept a horse and rode, and staid out of doors most of the time by day, and entirely recovered from the cough which I had carried from West Point, and from all indications of consumption.

I have often thought that my life was saved, and my health restored, by exercise and exposure, enforced by an administrative act, and a war, both of which I disapproved.
As summer wore away, and cool days and colder nights came upon us, the tents.