Excerpt from Customs of Service for Non-Commissioned Officers and Soldiers: As Derived From Law and Regulations and Practised in the Army of the United States; Being a Hand-Book for the Rank and File of the Army, Showing What Are the Rights and Duties, How to Obtain the Former and Perform the Latter, and Thereby Enabling Them To On the contrary, if their superiors were in competent and unscrupulous men, careless in the execution of their duties, and indolent in acqui ring knowledge and instructing the soldiers, the latter were neglected, their rights suffered, and they had little or no Opportunity of learning those things necessary to their advancement. Confident that every soldier who is desirous of learning his duties will feel grateful for this little volume, the author places before them the means of studying for themselves what they so much desire to know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.