It was the generals that everybody saw charge such and such, with drawn sabre, his eyes flashing fire, his nostrils dilated, and his clarion voice ringing above the din of battle--"in a horn," over the left.
Bill Johns and Marsh Pinkard would have made Generals that would have distinguished themselves and been an honor to the country.
I know today many a private who would have made a good General.

I know of many a General who was better fitted to be excused from detail and fights, to hang around a camp and draw rations for the company.

A private had no way to distinguish himself.

He had to keep in ranks, either in a charge or a retreat.

But now, as the Generals and Colonels fill all the positions of honor and emoluments, the least I say, the better.
THE RETREAT OUT OF KENTUCKY From Perryville we went to Camp Dick Robinson and drew three days' rations, and then set fire to and destroyed all those great deposits of army stores which would have supplied the South for a year.