This canteen only holds three pints; that's great deal less'n you do.

It's full now, and you're empty.
Fill up some place else, and tomorrow or next day, when you'd give a farm for a nip, this'll come in mighty handy." The Hospital Steward approached, and said: "Captain, the Surgeon presents his compliments and requests that you send four men to convey your First Lieutenant Alspaugh to comfortable quarters which have been prepared for him in the hospital barracks.
His rheumatic trouble has suddenly assumed an acute form--brought on doubtless by the change in the weather--and he is suffering greatly.
Please instruct the men to be very careful carrying him, so as to avoid all unnecessary pain, and also all exposure to the rain.

He will have a good room in the hospital, with a fire in it, and every attention, so that you need have no fears concerning him." "I never had," said Kent, loud enough to be heard all over the right wing of the company.
"I have," said Abe.

"There's every danger in the world that he'll get well." Away the regiment marched, through the dismal rain, going as fast as the heavily laden men could be spurred onward by the knowledge of their comrades' imminent need.
It was fearful hard work even so long as the pike lasted, and they had a firm, even foundation for their feet to tread upon.

But the pike ended at Crab Orchard, and then they plunged into the worst roads that the South at any time offered to resist the progress of the Union armies.
Narrow, tortuous, unworked substitutes for highways wound around and over steep, rocky hills, through miry creek bottoms, and over bridgeless streams, now so swollen as to be absolutely unfordable by less determined men, starting on a less urgent errand.
For three weary, discouraging days they pressed onward through the dispiriting rain and over all the exhausting obstacles.