Springfield in the Spanish American war . ^ there until morning. For thinking such thoughts we were indeed what are knownin the vernacular as good things, for as it transpired after-wards the Spaniards knew all about where we were andwhere we were going. Had it not been for their traditional 80. < oo o « H W policy of manana they might have sallied ont and doneseveral things to ua, but they preferred to wait until the nextday, which was a lucky thing for us. Sleep comes quickly to a soldier in bivouac and soon afterour halt every one of us, with the exception of the guards,was asleep. No at
Springfield in the Spanish American war . ^ there until morning. For thinking such thoughts we were indeed what are knownin the vernacular as good things, for as it transpired after-wards the Spaniards knew all about where we were andwhere we were going. Had it not been for their traditional 80. < oo o « H W policy of manana they might have sallied ont and doneseveral things to ua, but they preferred to wait until the nextday, which was a lucky thing for us. Sleep comes quickly to a soldier in bivouac and soon afterour halt every one of us, with the exception of the guards,was asleep. No attempt was made to put up the sheltertents, but we contented ourselves with unrolling them,spreading them upon the grass and wrapping ourselves up inour blankets. A few of us lunched upon hardtack and rawbacon washed down with muddy water from the canteensbut the majority of the bo3s were too tired to think even ofeating. That night the premonition came to some of our boys thatthe morrow would be their last day on earth and although wetried to laugh it out of them they stuck to it that their fatewas settled. One of these boys was Frank Moody of K andso strongh was he impressed with the feeling of coming dis-aster to himself that he made one of his comrades take hiswatch and promise to de
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