Army Field Manuals

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    “Olivia Dandridge: You don’t have to say it, Captain. I know all this is because of me. Because I wanted to see the West. Because I wasn’t, I wasn’t army enough to stay the winter.
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    “The snow had begun in the gloaming,
    And busily all the night
    Had been heaping field and highway
    With a silence deep and white.”
    —James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

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