How soldiers were made : or, the war as I saw it under Buell, Rosecrans, Thomas, Grant and Sherman . his jokes. The Colonel was a ripescholar and gallant soldier in battle, and ever mydevoted friend. But he utterly despised theroutine of a soldiers life, especially the drills andparades. He did what was required of himbecause it was his duty, but not from any pleas-ure or interest he took in it. One day on drill 120 HOW SOLDIERS WERE MADE. Col. Moore failed to hear my command, anddashed up to McMynn and inquired : Did youhear anything? The Colonel drawled out:Y-e-s, I heard that Vicksburg was
How soldiers were made : or, the war as I saw it under Buell, Rosecrans, Thomas, Grant and Sherman . his jokes. The Colonel was a ripescholar and gallant soldier in battle, and ever mydevoted friend. But he utterly despised theroutine of a soldiers life, especially the drills andparades. He did what was required of himbecause it was his duty, but not from any pleas-ure or interest he took in it. One day on drill 120 HOW SOLDIERS WERE MADE. Col. Moore failed to hear my command, anddashed up to McMynn and inquired : Did youhear anything? The Colonel drawled out:Y-e-s, I heard that Vicksburg was taken. There was not time to perfect this system ofbugle calls, but Col. Griffin took hold of it withgreat interest, and his regiment, by much prac-tice, acquired proficiency in it, and the call of theThirty-eighth Indiana was familiar to the troopsin the neighboring camps. There was nothingnew in these devices. The Scottish chieftainsgathered together their clans with blasts fromtheir bugles, and the movements of the Romancohorts and legions were regulated by their fifesand trumpets. CHAPTER THE TULLAHOMA CAMPAIGN. UT these happy days came to an invited guests returned home,and another movement upon Braggcommenced. Much criticism has been expend-ed upon Rosecrans for his delay in as-suming the aggressive. The effect ofthis delay upon Grants operations atVicksburg, or whether Bragg sent re-inforcements to Johnston or Pemberton, are sub-jects upon which I have no information. But Ithink there is another side to the questionconcerning the propriety of Rosecrans a battle been forced upon Bragg, and hebeen defeated, the vanquished could have madetheir way to Vicksburg, and, had Bragg beenvictorious, he could have spared reinforcementsfor that purpose, and hence Rosecrans, by hold-ing himself before Bragg in a threatening man- 122 HOW SOLDIERS WERE MADE. ner, tended to restrain him from weakening hisforce. But, however this may have been, theoffensive now bega
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