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Show RE-KILLED BY ORDER. Gen. A. R. Chaffee at a sailors' banquet ban-quet told about a quartermaster who entered on the books of his company at the cloe of a certain battle: "John Smith, killed July 7," etc. But a day or two later It turned out that John Smith had not been killed after all. He had only been wounded. The quartermaster, quarter-master, on receipt of this news, wrote under the first entry: "Killed by mistake." mis-take." Finally, though there came a bulletin announcing the death of Smith in the hospital. This fact the quartermaster quarter-master recorded In this way: "Re-killed by order." |