Confederate echoes: a voice from the South in the days of secession and of the Southern Confederacy . ^ be with their families, asidefrom the length of time required on theroute going and coming. It was necessarily more difficult for asoldier to procure a furlough on some oc-casions than on others, owing to the great-(294). KEY. AXD MUS. A. T. (^ 8. lOOo. CONFEDEKATE ECHOES. 295 er or less importance for the men to beat their places for military service. It ofcourse would not do to permit them toleave their posts of duty in the midst ofa vigorous and important campaign, or onthe eve
Confederate echoes: a voice from the South in the days of secession and of the Southern Confederacy . ^ be with their families, asidefrom the length of time required on theroute going and coming. It was necessarily more difficult for asoldier to procure a furlough on some oc-casions than on others, owing to the great-(294). KEY. AXD MUS. A. T. (^ 8. lOOo. CONFEDEKATE ECHOES. 295 er or less importance for the men to beat their places for military service. It ofcourse would not do to permit them toleave their posts of duty in the midst ofa vigorous and important campaign, or onthe eve of a battle, but there were timeswhen hostilities were not very active, andwhen nothing would be lost to the efficien-cy of the army by the absence of a fewmen at a time, and for a short while. To procure a furlough, except when itwas given by merely drawing for it undercertain orders, as was sometimes the case,a very systematic procedure was neces-sary. Such military regulations as this,which involved a great deal of form, wewere accustomed to call red tape of theWest Point variety. Some soldiers werevery harsh in their criticisms of this fea-ture of army management, but they weresuch generally as were averse to disciplin-ary restraints in any particular. Applica-tion for furlough in due form had to bemade in writ
Size: 1927px × 1297px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidconfederateechoe00good
