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Then, always in due order, would succeed the field telegraph corps; the
field post-office corps; the Red Cross corps; the brass band of, say,
forty pieces; and all the rest of it, to the extent of a thousand and
one circus parades rolled together. There were boats for making pontoon
bridges, mounted side by side on wagons, with the dried mud of the River
Meuse still on their flat bottoms; there were baggage trains miles in
length, wherein the supply of regular army wagons was eked out with
nondescript vehicles--even family carriages and delivery vans gathered
up hastily, as the signs on their sides betrayed, from the tradespeople
of a dozen Northern German cities and towns, and now bearing chalk marks
on them to show in what division they belonged. And inevitably at the
tail of each regiment came its cook wagons, with fires kindled and food
cooking for supper in the big portable ranges, so that when these passed
the air would be charged with that pungent reek of burning wood which
makes an American think of a fire engine on its way to answer an alarm.


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