_how_.

Trained to press at every cost for the desired and decided-upon end.

Trained to obey orders willingly, and gladly, and wholly--not in part.

Trained to give no quarter to the enemy, no matter what the character, nor
in what form he may present himself, and to never consider what personal
advantage may be derived.

Trained in the art of the winsome, attractive coquetries of the round,
brown doughnut and all its kindred.

Trained, if needs be, to seal their services with their life's blood.

One of our women officers, on being told by the colonel of the regiment
she would be killed if she persisted in serving her doughnuts and cocoa to
the men while under heavy fire, and that she must get back to safety,
replied: "Colonel, we can die with the men, but we cannot leave them."

When, therefore, I gathered the little companies together for their last
charge before they sailed for France, I would tell them that while I was
unable to arm them with many of the advantages of the more wealthy
denominations; that while I could give them only a very few assistants
owing to the great demand upon our forces; and that while I could promise
them nothing beyond their bare expenses, yet I knew that without fear I
could rely upon them for an unsurpassed devotion to the God-inspired
standards of the emblem of this, the world's greatest Republic, the Stars
and Stripes, now in the van for the freedom of the peoples of the earth.
That I could rely upon them for unsurpassed devotion to the brave men who