1 The enemy would presently swallow the whole command.
2 They hung back lest he have at command a dreadful weapon.
3 Another, the commander of the brigade, was galloping about bawling.
4 They grew in numbers until it was seen that the whole command was fleeing.
5 At the yelled words of command the soldiers sprang forward in eager leaps.
6 He loitered in a fever of eagerness for the division commander to apply to him.
7 He glared with insolent command at his friend, but the latter answered soothingly.
8 He presently began a long and intricate denunciation of the commander of the forces.
9 It was during this rapid march that the regiment lost many of the marks of a new command.
10 The youth's regiment was marched to relieve a command that had lain long in some damp trenches.
11 The command went painfully forward until an open space interposed between them and the lurid lines.
12 One was the colonel of the regiment and the other was the officer who had received orders from the commander of the division.
13 The general, whom the boys knew as the commander of their division, looked at the other officer and spoke coolly, as if he were criticising his clothes.
14 There had been no order given; the men, upon recognizing the menace, had immediately let drive their flock of bullets without waiting for word of command.
15 The youth, turning swiftly to make sure that the rear was unmolested, saw the commander regarding his men in a highly resentful manner, as if he regretted above everything his association with them.
16 Afterward the center careered to the front until the regiment was a wedge-shaped mass, but an instant later the opposition of the bushes, trees, and uneven places on the ground split the command and scattered it into detached clusters.
17 The regiment was standing at order arms at the side of a lane, waiting for the command to march, when suddenly the youth remembered the little packet enwrapped in a faded yellow envelope which the loud young soldier with lugubrious words had intrusted to him.
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