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Destiny may have been more casual in those days, but she was just as determined to give a simple soldier an awful tough time. In The Life of Billy Yank, a brother volume to The Life of Johnny Reb (1943), Historian Bell Irvin Wiley recites the hard facts of daily life in the Union armies-or rather, he lets "Billy Yank" do his own talking, through the letters and other scraps of identity he left lying in his prodigious trail...
...bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley's Johnny Reb. but sometimes he could pull up his coat collar and walk into a hail of bullets "the same as I would go through a storm of hail and wind." He did not go looking for trouble. "The diferance between dyeing today and tomorrow is not much," wrote...
...things considered, says Historian Wiley, "the similarities of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb far outweighed their differences . . . [and their] performance in battle, by the admission of professionals sent from Europe to observe [them], compared favorably with that of soldiers anywhere...
...leave her shattered hulk to rust! Long has she rocked below, And many a fish has swum to see The grandma of the "Mo'; Above her piles the coastal tramp And plops the dinghy's oar;--The Yankee Cheese Box on a Raft Shail rout the Reb no more...
...look like that when Michigan State beat them not so long ago. Of the less important games, most un usual was little Lehigh's 13 to 9 victory over what is probably the worst football team that has ever represented Princeton. Midwest. Captain Hank Bruder and Fullback Reb Russell took turns carrying the ball and gained 364 yards, made 16 first downs against Indiana, won 25 to 0? a game that makes Northwestern potential Big Ten champion. Playing intersectionally, Wisconsin and Minnesota won their games. Ohio State, completing its own passes and intercepting all others it saw around, took Navy...