. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e bridges and ferry-boats to examine all passes. These were granted by the regimental, brigade, or di> isioncommanders—or by all three and prescribed the time of departure and also the time of return. The holder was liable also to bestopped by a patrol of the provost-guard in Washington and required to show it again. Attempts were frequently made by officers andmen who had overstayed their leave to tamper with the dates on their passes, but these seldom succeeded.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . e bridges and ferry-boats to examine all passes. These were granted by the regimental, brigade, or di> isioncommanders—or by all three and prescribed the time of departure and also the time of return. The holder was liable also to bestopped by a patrol of the provost-guard in Washington and required to show it again. Attempts were frequently made by officers andmen who had overstayed their leave to tamper with the dates on their passes, but these seldom succeeded. Several officers were dis-missed the service, and many a soldier suffered punishment of hard labor for this offense. Among old army men of 1861-62 locatednear Washington, the signature of Drake de Kay, Adjutant-General of the War Department, became well-known. His signature wasconsiderably larger even than the renowned signature of John Hancock, who made his name under the Declaration of Independencean inscription so enormous that King George would not have to take off his glasses I read it, and one not easily PATRIOT PUB. CO. SERGEANT AND SENTRY ON GUARD AT LONG BRIDGE arslialuut tltr iFf&rral Utolmttrrrfi * * \\ ■ \ -tibl1*^ proudly at home but meekly enough at the trout, where speed-ily the Ellsworth Avengers became the Forty-fourth;the Brooklyn Phalanx, the Sixty-seventh; the Engi-neers, the Thirty-eighth; the Lancers, the Sixth Penn-sylvania. Dick Rushs gallant troopers were soon knownas the Seventh Regulars. and well did they earn the , too, in the West, where the Guthrie Grays, once Cin-cinnatis favorite corps, were swallowed up in the Sixth Ohio,and in St. Louis, where the Fremont Rifles, ZagonyiGuards, and Foreign Legions drew many an alien to thefolds of the flag, and later to the dusty blue of the Unionsoldier. As for arms, the regiments came to the front with everyconceivable kind, and some with none at all. The regular in-fantry, what there w
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