And learned they were all substitutes.
Then orders came for us to go,
Way down where blood like rivers flow.
When the soldiers saw me, they yelled, “Recruit!
Why did you come as a substitute?”
CHAPTER XI.
SPECIAL RATIONS.—BOXES FROM HOME.—SUTLERS.
Can we all forget the bills on Sutler’s ledger haply yet,
Which we feared he would remember, and we hoped he would forget?