water-but no pay could be forfeited for any offense, for no fines were
allowed in the republic. For serious offenses committed by either
officer or private in time of peace, such as sodomy, crimes against
nature, adultery, seduction, larceny, embezzlement or any other felony,
the accused was sent to the district court for trial and on conviction
was dismissed the service and committed to prison for the term of years
provided by the law for the crime he had been convicted of and five
years additional for perjury, he having violated his oath of office that
he would be honest and upright in all things so help him God, and any
officer could be reduced to the ranks for conduct unbecoming a gentleman
as the result of a trial before a jury of twelve men drawn by ballot
from any other command than his own. No sashes, jewelry or regalia of
any kind was permitted to be worn.

Officers and privates were dressed alike and the insignia of rank was
worn on the collar, and no revolvers, bayonets, sabres, swords, rapiers
or lances were allowed to be carried-but every officer was required to
carry a rifle so that he could not be marked out by the enemy's
sharpshooters and to set an example of good shooting to his men when
under fire. Every soldier seriously injured in the service of his
country in time of peace as well as in war, received the same pay and
care as if he was still in the service and if he was killed or died from
disease his father and mother or either of them, as long as they lived.
The army was truly a great industrial army, for every officer and man
was required to work eight hours a day and for six days in the week, at
remunerative labor, and two hours on Sundays at rifle practice. The
rules and regulations governing the army applied equally to both sexes.
Both boys and girls, when drafted into the army, were first sent to the
headquarters of the army corps to which they were assigned, the boys
mostly afterward to the department of railways, mines, commerce and