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Hardee's Tactics.--Hardee was Chief of a Board to translate a system of Light Infantry Tactics from the French.
Lieut. Bennett of the Ordnance did the work, every word of it; and Hardee's name was attached to the translation!
He never, in all probability, saw or read one word of it, until called upon to study it for the purpose of learning how to drill the cadets at West Point, when appointed to command them.
He was the Commandant of Cadets, not the Superintendent of the Institution, for four years. As a soldier, his reputation in the army was never above mediocrity; to science he never made any pretension; and if we put him down as a tolerable cavalry officer, full justice is done him. As to “Hardee's Tactics,” that is a French book, translated by Lieut. Bennett-Hardee being President of the Board which adopted it for our service.--N. Y. Courier and Enquirer.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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