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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Mobile. (search)
Improvised Generals. [For a forthcoming number of Dr. Bun's Revise] By George Intelligent reader, if you were required to make a pair of negro's brogans, would you not reply that you could not make them, because you never learned the shoemaker's trade? Supposing you to be honest, patriotic, intelligent, over fifty years of age, and wholly unacquainted with the practice or science of military matters, and you were offered an appointment as Captain, or Colonel, or General in the Confederats army, with a salary of one, two, or three thousand dollars per annum, would you not unhesitatingly reply, "I know nothing of the art of war; am too old to learn, and will not, for the sake of fifthy lucre, betray my country !" "Appoint somebody also who has learned military affairs, either at school or in camp." Are stump orators Gods; born like Minerva, Bellona, or Mars, full armed, all- wise and invincible chieftains; and you, my intelligent readers, made of different and of baser clay,