. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . material, and was, in general, more amenable to discipline, forreasons heretofore stated—having been recruited, in large part,in the cities and large industrial centers. The Northern sol-dier had already formed the habit of subordination. The com-pany or regimental commander simply replaced the generalmanager or the boss —it was merely a new job, and in onecase as in the other what the superior said went. Thecountry-bred Southerner, on the other hand, was accustomedto the exercise of almost absolute authority over his slaves,few or
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . material, and was, in general, more amenable to discipline, forreasons heretofore stated—having been recruited, in large part,in the cities and large industrial centers. The Northern sol-dier had already formed the habit of subordination. The com-pany or regimental commander simply replaced the generalmanager or the boss —it was merely a new job, and in onecase as in the other what the superior said went. Thecountry-bred Southerner, on the other hand, was accustomedto the exercise of almost absolute authority over his slaves,few or many, according to his estate. But the simple andmore primitive habit of his rural mode of life stood him ingood stead when he came into the field. A gun was by nomeans an unfamiliar implement in his hands; he had knownits use from boyhood and could usually hit what he aimed in the mounted service his efficiency in action was in nowise impaired by preoccupation with his mount. He could nomore remember when he learned to ride than when he learnedt
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