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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A camp incident. (search)
ent. --A Columbus correspondent of the New Orleans Crescent relates the following incident: We had a scene on the parade-ground the other evening, during battalion drill. The regiment was standing at open order and ordered arms, when Col. Marks gave the order stack arms. Your military readers will a once see what a blunder this was, and how impossible it was to execute such an order according to modern tactics. It threw the line into confusion; some companies stood fast without obey teaching him how to execute the movement, indignantly ordered him to marvel his company off the ground, and report him self under arrest. The remaining companies then finished the bungles of stacking arms from an open order. Subsequently Col. Marks ordered the Continentals to appear before him at his tent which they did, under command of Lieut Babin. The Colonel informed the company that he did not order them off the parade fore him to punish them; he merely wished to let them understand