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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
ems to us outsiders.--Military and naval science is not learned in a day, nor are great Generals manufactured out of militia men. It would be little better than murder in the first degree to send troops to fight a field battle under militia Generals.--In guerilla warfare, and behind earthworks or cotton bags, which will probably be the principal mode of fighting in a war between the two sections, militia Generals will do very well, with the advice of some educated Aid, who has graduated at West Point. But in any great operations, requiring other qualities besides more bravery, the people have a right to demand that they shall be led by educated and scientific officers. Let military matters be left to military men. It is one of the favorite calculations of the enemy that Southern men will not be willing to enlist in the rank and file, that every man with a clean shirt will want to be an officer, and that few will be inclined to submit to the rigor of military discipline. We see