Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point
Or Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dick Prescott's Fourth Year at West Point: Or Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps<br><br>"Detachment halt!" commanded the engineer officer in charge.<br><br>Out on the North Dock at West Point the column of cadets had marched, and now, at the word, came to an abrupt stop.<br><br>This detachment, made up of members of the first and third classes in the United States Military Academy, was out on this August forenoon for instruction in actual military engineering.<br><br>The task, which must be accomplished in a scant two hours, was to lay a pontoon bridge across an indentation of the Hudson River, this indentation being a few hundred feet across, and representing, in theory, an unfordable river.<br><br>"Mr. Prescott!"<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.