War letters of Capt. Joseph E. Fiske <Harvard, '61> written to his parents during the war of the rebellion from Andover theological seminary and encampments in North Carolina and from southern prisons

Lynch ordered Moone to shoot him. "You shoot him," Moone replied. "The war is over." Skinny Sisk stepped forward, leveled his M-l at the fleeing man, and shot him dead. After the P.O.W.s and D.P.s were sorted and shipped out of the area, the next job was to sort out and consolidate all the captured German equipment and the U.S. Army equipment no longer needed for combat. As the material was gathered and registered, convoys of trucks took it to depots in France. Officers were ordered to turn in the silk escape map of France they had received before the jump into Normandy or be fined $75. As those maps were damn near sacred to the D-Day veterans, there was universal noncompliance. When told to pay the fine, Winters replied for the entire battalion, taking his line from General McAuliffe: "Nuts." The regimental supply officer, Capt. Herbert Sobel, backed down. Given the absence of resistance, indeed the enthusiastic cooperation of the Germans and Austrians, by the end of the third week in May there was little real work left for the Americans ...»