. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ediately sent out orders through my adjutant-general to marchearly next morning. Before they slept, one of the three had come to me withan earnest apology for his part in the matter, and a short time made them allas subordinate as I could wish. The incident could not have occurred in thebrigade which hadbeen under my com-mand at Camp Den-nison, and was thenatm-al result of thesudden assemblingof inexperiencedmen under a bri-gade commander ofwhom they knewnothing except thatat the


. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ediately sent out orders through my adjutant-general to marchearly next morning. Before they slept, one of the three had come to me withan earnest apology for his part in the matter, and a short time made them allas subordinate as I could wish. The incident could not have occurred in thebrigade which hadbeen under my com-mand at Camp Den-nison, and was thenatm-al result of thesudden assemblingof inexperiencedmen under a bri-gade commander ofwhom they knewnothing except thatat the beginning ofthe war he had beena civilian like them-selves. The same marchenabled me to makethe acquaintance ofanother army insti-tution,—the news-paper correspond-ent. At CharlestonI was joined by twomen representinginfluential newspapers, who wished to know on what terms they might accom-pany the column. The answer was that the quartermaster would furnishthem with a tent and with transportation, and that theu letters should besubmitted to one of the staff to i^roteet us from the publication of facts which. POST IIOSIIIAL AND WAIiOX-SHCIl AT KAXAWllA ERIDUE. FROM A PIIOTOGEAPH. 142 MCCLELLAN IN IVEST I^IRGINIA.


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