[Footnote: It must not be forgotten that my criticisms are strictly confined to the condition of military education in our Civil War period.

Since that time some excellent work has been done in post-graduate schools for the different arms of the service, and field manoeuvres have been practised on a scale never known in our army prior to 1861.

A good beginning has also been made, both here and in England, toward giving the young soldier a military library of English books.] Let us look now at the physical and practical training of the cadet.
The whole period of his student life at West Point had more or less of this.

He was taken as a raw recruit would be, taught the school of the soldier in marching, in the manual of arms, and in personal carriage.

He passed on to the drill of the squad, the platoon, the company.