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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Siege and capture of Fort Pulaski . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 4.19 (search)
Campaigning to no purpose.
Recollections of a private.-ii.
Warren Lee Coss.
Inspection. From a War-time sketch.While we were in camp at Washington in February, 1862, we were drilled to an extent which to the raw thinking soldier seemed unnecessary.
Our colonel was a strict disciplinarian.
His efforts to drill out of us the methods of action and thought common to citizens, and to substitute in place thereof blind, unquestioning obedience to military rules, were not always appreciated at their true value.
In my company there was an old drill-sergeant (let us call him Sergeant Hackett) who was in sympathetic accord with the colonel.
He had occasion to reprove me often, and, finally, to inflict a blast of profanity at which my self-respect rebelled.
Knowing that swearing was a breach of discipline, I waited confidently upon the colonel, with the manner of one gentleman calling upon another.
After the usual salute, I opened complaint by saying: Colonel, Mr. Hackett has---- T
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The Peninsular campaign . (search)