"The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that\'s the way we go," runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874.
At once panoramic and intimate, Regular Army O uses the testimony of enlisted soldiers--drawn from more than 350 diaries, letters, and memoirs--to create.
McChristian\'s remarkable work capturing the lot of soldiers posted to the West after the Civil War. "Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O " The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. "The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that\'s the way we go," runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874