private soldier

There is the private soldier commanded to fall into line—is he actually responsible?

The private soldier proposes, and the officer opposes—that is, as a general thing.

The private soldier regards a new and unknown commander very much as a slave does a new owner, and with good reason.

They foresaw an era in which the working man and the private soldier would grab whatever they wanted.

The same rule of course smote at the head of any private soldier who served in the ranks!