10:)
They do not behave as soldiers, but rather as highwaymen,
bandits, and brigands, and are a dishonor to our regiment and
to our army.
Another, Lieut. Y., of the Seventy-seventh Infantry of Reserves, says:
No discipline, ... the Pioneers are well nigh worthless; as to
the artillery, it is a band of robbers.
The third, Private Z., of the Twelfth Infantry of Reserves, First Corps,
writes, (Fig. 11:)
[Illustration: Figure 11.]
Unfortunately, I am forced to make note of a fact which should
not have occurred, but there are to be found, even in our own
army, creatures who are no longer men, but hogs, to whom
nothing is sacred. One of these broke into a sacristy; it was
locked, and where the Blessed Sacrament was kept. A
Protestant, out of respect, had refused to sleep there. This
man used it as a deposit for his excrements. How is it
possible there should be such creatures? Last night one of the
men of the Landwehr, more than thirty-five years of age,
married, tried to rape the daughter of the inhabitant where
he had taken up his quarters--a mere girl--and when the father
intervened he pressed his bayonet against his breast.
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