Word: sergeant
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that...