Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1898 — One Day’s Fighting in Thirty. [ARTICLE]

One Day’s Fighting in Thirty.

With an army In the field hardly one day In thirty Is given to fighting. The other twenty-nine days of waiting must be lived through In order that everything may be In. readiness for one day of work. It is not the one flay of fighting which turns the hair of an officer gray, but the twenty-nine days of anxiety for his men, the supply of their food and clothing and the maintenance of health and good spirits among them. Men do not fight well in battle on empty stomachs, and yet the ordinary soldier rarely takes care of the provisions which are Issued to him for forced marches. He eats them all at once or throws them away on account of theiij weight, and at the end of a long day*B march he is hungry, with nothing 'to appease his hunger. Then comes the trouble. He does not reason. He grumbles and expects to be supplied with more.