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The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Patriotic. --All save one of the actors at the theatre are foreigners, and not, therefore, liable to militia duty. They have, however, determined to organize in military style and hold themselves in readiness to do their part towards expelling the invader. Taken all together, the employees of the concern would make quite a respectable company. No captain has yet been chosen, but the representatives of mimic life would not have to go far to find a man bred to the profession of arms willing to be their leader. Professor Hewitt, albeit more used of late years to the flow of musical numbers than the clash of resounding arms, is a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, and would be but too happy to don the nor of a son of Mars.
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Mobile. (search)
ctice 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, can you conceive it possible for a mere mortal, past fifty, to become a good soldier or a great General, without previous study, or practice, or experience? Cartainly not. If a single one of our improvised officers makes a good leader from the start, he must be like Joan of Are, inspired from above. But the day of miracles and of impiration has passed, and we are doomed to