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- Jul 23, 2017
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- Southwest Missouri
The rank and file have a pretty good appreciation of the strategy of the campaign.
They understand that it has been a series of splendid flank movements, and "flanking " has become the current joke with which to account for everything from a night march to the capture of a sheep or a pig.
A poor fellow, terribly wounded, yesterday, said he saw the shell coming, " but hadn't time to flank it." And he enjoyed his joke with a smile and a chuckle, when his quick eye had sought and found appreciation among the bystanders.
The shell had " flanked" him, by taking off an arm.
Letters of a War Correspondent
They understand that it has been a series of splendid flank movements, and "flanking " has become the current joke with which to account for everything from a night march to the capture of a sheep or a pig.
A poor fellow, terribly wounded, yesterday, said he saw the shell coming, " but hadn't time to flank it." And he enjoyed his joke with a smile and a chuckle, when his quick eye had sought and found appreciation among the bystanders.
The shell had " flanked" him, by taking off an arm.
Letters of a War Correspondent
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