. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ount of feather-beds being strewed equipage. The road from Ojo del Pueblo is strewn witharound; distance from Dead Mans Spring seventeen old harness, iron ovens, and in fact everything butmiles. They encamped there. From there thev took the small ammunition. It seems they destroyed very littleroad to Ojo del Pueblo; distance fifteen miles; road if any, of that. It appears that the Mexicans havevery rough. Here they blew up a caisson, burned th
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . ount of feather-beds being strewed equipage. The road from Ojo del Pueblo is strewn witharound; distance from Dead Mans Spring seventeen old harness, iron ovens, and in fact everything butmiles. They encamped there. From there thev took the small ammunition. It seems they destroyed very littleroad to Ojo del Pueblo; distance fifteen miles; road if any, of that. It appears that the Mexicans havevery rough. Here they blew up a caisson, burned three carried off a great deal. There is nothing worth send-wagons, hospital department, medicines, etc.; left a ing for in the shape of ammunition except the shell. Thefew shell and round shot. From there they took to the distance from Nugales to Eio Puerco is about 109 miles;Salada; distance from Ojo del Pueblo about thirty miles; road very bad. Sibleys command made it in five days,road very rough. On this road, near and at Salada, Left dead on the road about 60 or 70 mules and blew up and burned 6 caissons, 1 12-pounder how- PROVOST GUARD, WASHINGTON. FROM A SKETCH MADE M^CLELLAN ORGANIZING THE GRAND ARMY. BY PHILIPPE, COMTE DE PARIS, AIDE-DE-CAMP TO GENERAL »rCLELLAN. NO one has denied that McClellan was a marvelous organizer. Every vet-eran of the Aimy of the Potomac will be able to recall that extraordinarytime when the people of the North devoted all their native energy and spu-itof initiative to the raising of enormous levies of futuie combatants and theirmilitary equipment, and when infantry battalions, squadrons of cavahy,and batteries of artillery sprung, as it were, from the earth in a night, andpoured in from all sides upon the barren wastes of vacant building-lots thatthen went to the making up of fully three-quarters of the Federal capital. It was in the midst of this herculean task of organization that two French• aides-de-camp were assign
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