All the afternoon as he watched he saw other and yet other groups and troops of men come up the railroad, detrain and push out ever farther upon the enveloping wings to east and west.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
One unit took four and a half hours to detrain and several have taken more than three.
"Servants of the Guns"
Jeffery E. Jeffery
Then on the required date you marshal your little force at the railway station, shepherd them into the cars, and detrain them a few hours later, under even more trying circumstances, a few miles from camp.
"From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade"
Frederic C. Curry