Excerpt from Our First War in Mexico
The sentry on Number Three Post passes as I write this. The collar of his O. D. shirt is turned up like an old-fashioned stock; the lean, brown profile under the bell-crowned forage-cap is that of an old-time Yankee. A voice somewhere behind me demands: "When are we going to Mexico?" It is '46 come back again.
But across the parade-ground rolls the monstrous gray bulk of Battlecar B-I, a gray steel fortress on armored wheels, and up the slope from the Peekskill road comes a dashing, sputtering detachment of motor-cycle men. It is a far cry from the flintlocks and three-dollar horses - see Grant's "Memoirs" - of seventy years ago.
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