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Wartime Separation of Spouses
Wartime Separation of Spouses
not do anything of the kind while was I was in the Army and I
intend to live up to it. We have had and have now several men
and I suppose they would like to be called men one of them has
to carry his knap sack filled with stones for one week 2 hours in
each day, one has to walk two hours each day with a flour barrel;
one head of the barrel is out and the other head has a hole in it
just big enough to let the man's head through; one is marched
through the camp with a board on his back & 1 on his breast-with the word theif [sic] on each by 12 solders and a band
playing the Rogues march. There is a number of other but I will
not mention any more.
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