. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ially rural, but under the impetusabove indicated, and with no immediate thought of ulteriorservice, the people, of the border States especially, began toform military companies in almost every county, and to uni-form, arm, and drill them. The habit and temper of the men, no less than the puta-tive intent of these organizations, gave a strong bias towardthe cavalry arm. In the cities and larger towns the otherbranches were also represented, though by no means in theusual proportion in any regular establishment. In Virginiathe mount
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ially rural, but under the impetusabove indicated, and with no immediate thought of ulteriorservice, the people, of the border States especially, began toform military companies in almost every county, and to uni-form, arm, and drill them. The habit and temper of the men, no less than the puta-tive intent of these organizations, gave a strong bias towardthe cavalry arm. In the cities and larger towns the otherbranches were also represented, though by no means in theusual proportion in any regular establishment. In Virginiathe mounted troops probably outnumbered the infantry andartillery combined. All were imperfectly armed or equippedfor anything like actual campaigning, but at the beginningof hostilities a fair degree of drill and some approach to dis-cipline had been attained, and these bodies formed a nucleusabout which the hastily assembled levies, brought into the fieldby the call to arms, formed themselves, and doubtless receiveda degree of stiffening from such contact. [138] It. CONFEDERATES OF 61 THE CLINCH RIFLES ON MAY 10TH NEXT DAY THEY JOINED A REGIMENT DESTINED TO FAME On the day before they were mustered in as Company A, Fifth Regiment of Georgia Volunteer Infantry,the Clinch Rifles of Augusta were photographed at their home town. A. K. Clark, the boy in the centerwith the drum, fortunately preserved a copy of the picture. Just half a century later, he wrote: I weighedonly ninety-five pounds, and was so small that they would only take me as a drummer. Of the seventeenmen in this picture, I am the only one living. Hardly two are dressed alike; they did not becomeuniform for many months. With the hard campaigning in the West and East, the weights of the menalso became more uniform. The drummer-boy filled out and became a real soldier, and the stout man ly-ing down in front lost much of his superfluous avoirdupois in the furious engagements where it earned itstitle as a fighting regiment. The
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