[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So if you are a cook you are not a soldier.

That is fascinating.

I wonder what they call the people who are clerks, quarter masters, grooms and so forth. Not soldiers either?

[Bull Snipe]

Do not equate our modern army with those of the Civil War

[DoodleDawg]

So if you are a cook you are not a soldier.
That is fascinating.

Not if you were black and cooked for the Confederate army, no.