. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . H. W. HALLECKCom. Armies United States, July, 1862 — March, ISOJ,. ^ GEORGE 15. McCLELLAX Com. Anini of the Joioiiidf. An;/., 1861 — hSIl.:! GETTYSBURG that vast army ever made the discovery that a soldiercould have a clean and presentable gun on inspec-tion without having that gun polished to a finishbrightness, no soldier in the Army of the Potomacever heard of it. The consequence was that duringthat winter the Army of the Potomac wore to afrazzle more than a hundred thousand guns by thetoo free use of sandpaper, a
. Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War . H. W. HALLECKCom. Armies United States, July, 1862 — March, ISOJ,. ^ GEORGE 15. McCLELLAX Com. Anini of the Joioiiidf. An;/., 1861 — hSIl.:! GETTYSBURG that vast army ever made the discovery that a soldiercould have a clean and presentable gun on inspec-tion without having that gun polished to a finishbrightness, no soldier in the Army of the Potomacever heard of it. The consequence was that duringthat winter the Army of the Potomac wore to afrazzle more than a hundred thousand guns by thetoo free use of sandpaper, and the Northern war-scale was thereby lightened thirty or forty per centfor the Spring campaign of 1862; and in such cir-cumstances how could McClellan have been ex-pected to win battles ? Later, after the army took the field, the soldierslearned for themselves and put in practice, in caringfor their arms, the common-sense ideas that everyhunter knows; and after the Army of the Potomachad been supplied with new arms all around, itstood some show in the field of war. The other circumstance, which was even moreserious in r
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