Excerpt from Summer With the Union Men The lady at the Office said that it got fearfully hot in those Washington hills and advised me to purchase khaki Shirts, straw hat and overalls, as other pants would let in the wheat beards, and to wear the thin est kind of underwear, and strong leather gauntlet gloves. 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.