CHAPTER X.
COMPANY K.
Tom Somers felt that he was now a soldier indeed.

While the company remained in Pinchbrook, he had slept every night in his own bed, and taken his meals in the kitchen of the little cottage.

He fully realized that he had bade a long farewell to all the comforts and luxuries of home.

That day, for the first time, he was to partake of soldiers' fare, and that night, for the first time, he was to sleep upon a soldier's bed.

These thoughts did not make him repine, for before he signed the muster roll, he had carefully considered, with the best information he could obtain, what hardships and privations he would be called to endure.