. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . Profanity was considered indispensable inmule-driving. The value of the mule in the army was very great onaccount of its being less liable to injury than the horse, andbecause it could adapt itself to circumstances much better. Before the war a dead mule was seldom seen. One wouldthink they lived forever. Dead m
. History of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers Corn exchange regiment, from their first engagement at Antietam to Appomattox. To which is added a record of its organization and a complete roster. Fully illustrated with maps, portraits, and over one hundred illustrations, with addenda . Profanity was considered indispensable inmule-driving. The value of the mule in the army was very great onaccount of its being less liable to injury than the horse, andbecause it could adapt itself to circumstances much better. Before the war a dead mule was seldom seen. One wouldthink they lived forever. Dead mules were very plenty in thearmy. They were hard to kill. They gnawed the poles offthe wagons. To prevent this destruction they were woundaround with hoop iron. Trees and brush were often draggedin front of the wagons for the mules to feed on. It bore hard usage and scoffs and sneers with uncomplain-ing heroism, and was found dead on all the battlefields of thewar. It was of inestimable value to the army, and it is doubt-lul if the varied operations could have been conducted witli-out it. Is it too much to say that to it, above some other distin-guished claimants, should be given the credit of having savedthe Union ? And it has never been known to get a pensionnor ask for THE ARMY MULE. BY TOM, OF CO. K. For years upon years, very patiently, too, Ive waited for some one to give me my due. The officers, soldiers, the batteries, flags. The donkeys of all kinds, the cavalrys nags, Have been mentioned with praise. It seems to me crue! That none should remember the old army mule. Though my voice is no longer so vibrant or strong, At the last I am driven to sing my own song. For, boys, you remember, as surely you must, 2 brought up your rations through mud and through dust; I raided the hard-tack; i chewed up the tents;In somebodys ribs made a couple of dents,Az»«! doubled the fellow who was such a foolAs to tickle the side of the old army mule, I stopped when I chose; went o
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