Yet we were ordered to throw away our advantages and reduce ourselves to our enemy's condition upon the obstinate prejudice of a worthy man who had had all flexibility drilled out of him by routine.

Models of automatic rapid-fire and repeating field-pieces were familiar objects "at the rear," but I saw none of them in action in any army in which I served.

The conservatism of the old army must be held responsible for this.
The question of zeal and devotion to the cause for which we fought cannot be ignored in such a war as ours was.

It is notorious that comparatively few of the regular officers were political friends of Mr.Lincoln's administration at the beginning.

Of those who did not "go with the South" but remained true to the National flag, some were full of earnest patriotism, like the young officers whom I have mentioned as volunteering to assist the governors of States in organizing their contingents and as seeking places in volunteer regiments.