I wouldn't have missed all this experience for the finest farm in the Miami Valley.
"Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, To soldier have a day," Sir Walter Scott says--as I improve him." "'Specially one of them soaking days when we were marching through the mud to Wildcat." "O, those were just thrown in to make us appreciate good weather when we have it.

Otherwise we wouldn't.

You know what the song says: 'For Spring would be but gloomy weather, If we had nothing else but Spring.'" "Well, for my part, one o' them days was enough to p'ison six months o' sunshine.

I declare, I believe I'll feel mildewed for the rest of my life.

I know if I pulled off my clothes you could scrape the green mold off my back." "And I'm sure that if we'd had the whole army to pick from, we couldn't've got in with a better lot of boys and officers.