. Enoch Stahler, miller and soldier . Copyright, 1909. by Lieutenant Stahler 26A«-09. LiKUTicNANT Enoch Statiler. ENOCH STABLER MILLER AND SOLDIER Alas, yon kiiozc I am no vannter, I; My scars can ^vitncss, dniiib althoiiyJi they arc, That my report is just and full of truth, But soft! methinks I do digress too much. Citing my zvorthless praise: O pardon me: For zvhen no friends are by men praise thcmselzcs. —Titus Andronicus, Act I. Sc. III. This is not a ghost story nor a piece of fiction of any kind;for I pride myself on trying at least to be a real man, and onhaving served two quite real a
. Enoch Stahler, miller and soldier . Copyright, 1909. by Lieutenant Stahler 26A«-09. LiKUTicNANT Enoch Statiler. ENOCH STABLER MILLER AND SOLDIER Alas, yon kiiozc I am no vannter, I; My scars can ^vitncss, dniiib althoiiyJi they arc, That my report is just and full of truth, But soft! methinks I do digress too much. Citing my zvorthless praise: O pardon me: For zvhen no friends are by men praise thcmselzcs. —Titus Andronicus, Act I. Sc. III. This is not a ghost story nor a piece of fiction of any kind;for I pride myself on trying at least to be a real man, and onhaving served two quite real and useful functions in life—for about fifty years that of a practical miller, having workedin some fifty different flouring mills, and for four years asoldier in the Federal Cavalry, where I had some quite tryingexperiences. The very unusual character of one of these was the occa-sion which in the first instance led to the writing of this littlework. I was a First Lieutenant in command of Company C,Third New York Cavalry, which formed a part of the Iirst1 brigade of General Ka
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