The human back can become the seat of more aches and pains than are registered in books for the composite anatomy of a regiment. - Stephen Crane

Each man in this stretcher party had gained a reflected majesty. They were footmen to death, and

The shadows of the woods were formidable. He was certain that in this vista there lurked fierce-eyed hosts. The swift thought came to him that the generals did not know what they were about. It was all a trap. Suddenly those close forests would bristle with rifle barrels.

Formidable women, with uncombed hair and disordered dress, gossiped while leaning on railings, or screamed in frantic quarrels.