We were at our last post in the Philippines when my husband, then colonel of the — th
Cavalry, reached the age limit for the army and was retired with the rank of brigadier- general, after forty-two years' service; and we thought, my soldier-man and I, that we were done for the rest of our lives with bugle-calls and long envelopes from headquarters.
1919. By Mary Hallock Foote, an American author and illustrator. The book was written in honor of the memory of the author’s daughter Agnes.
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