There were plenty of volunteer regiments that could not be excelled in drill, in the performance of camp duty, or in the finish and exactness of all the forms of parades and of routine.

But it was generally brought about by much milder methods of discipline.

A captain of volunteers was usually followed by his neighbors and relatives.

The patriotic zeal of the men of the company as well as their self-respect made them easily amenable to military rule so far as it tended to fit them better to do the noble work they had volunteered for, and on which their hearts were as fully set as the hearts of their colonels or generals.

In the regular army, officers and men belonged to different castes, and a practically impassable barrier was between them.