. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . War or in the militia. They had heen accustomed to militarysystems now obsolete, but their training enabled them to speed-ily put off the old and put on the new, and the} proved fairlycapable drillmasters. It Mas days, often weeks, before uniforms were provided,and entire battalions performed their evolutions in their civil-ian clothes, of all cuts and hues. Longer were they withoutarms. The sentries, or camp guards, walked their beats dayor night with clubs. At the regimental headquarters were ascore or two of condemned muskets wh
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . War or in the militia. They had heen accustomed to militarysystems now obsolete, but their training enabled them to speed-ily put off the old and put on the new, and the} proved fairlycapable drillmasters. It Mas days, often weeks, before uniforms were provided,and entire battalions performed their evolutions in their civil-ian clothes, of all cuts and hues. Longer were they withoutarms. The sentries, or camp guards, walked their beats dayor night with clubs. At the regimental headquarters were ascore or two of condemned muskets which were utilized allday long by alternating squads of non-commissioned officers,practising the manual of arms in preparation for instructingthe men. Xow armed and equipped, the men were industriouslydrilled, by squads, by companies, and by battalions, six to eighthours a day. There were awkwardness and blundering; ser-geants would march their platoons, and captains, their com-panies, by the right instead of by the left flank, or vice versa,to the destructio
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