Whenever we stopped even for a moment we fell on the ground and were asleep before we touched it.

Half the fellows I knew have been killed.

I think as long as I live I'll hear the drumming of those guns in my ears, and, confound 'em, I still hear 'em in reality now.

If you turn your attention to it you can hear the confounded business quite plainly! But what I do know, Scott, is that we've been winning! I don't know where I am and I haven't a clear idea of what I've been doing all the time, but as sure as we're in France the victory is ours." "But won by the French chiefly" John could not keep from saying.
"Quite true.

Our own army is not large, but it has done as much per man." "And the moral support," added John.