Drilling always drilling.

[tmh10]

Title: Drilling troops near Washington, D.C.

• Date Created/Published: [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889]

• Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : gelatin silver.

• Summary: Troops marching on hill, with tents in background.

• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-03310 (digital file from original item) LC-BH8255-16 (b&w glass copy neg.)

• Call Number: LOT 4173, no. 36 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

[major bill]

By the end of the war with so much relying on defensive works, is might be "digging, always digging".

 

[tmh10]

By the end of the war with so much relying on defensive works, is might be "digging, always digging".

Ha, Bill, the guy in the ranks thought it was all just hard work Im sure.

 

[PeterT]

Looks cold with that snow on the ground. Gotta do something to keep warm!

 

[major bill]

It has been my experience that soldiers think everything is hard work. Complaining is just what soldiers do. If you give a soldier a cold can of beer, they will complain the pulling the top top is "hard work" and someone should open it for them.