. The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: a history of its part and place in the war for the union, with an outline of causes of war and its results to our country . soldier would evidently have thebest of it. The captain desired to be respected and to have hisorders obeyed. Respect did not always follow. The soldiers some-times debated his orders in an evening town meeting. Then we had the smart captain. He really could learn understood well, he read the army regulations and acquired thetactics in short order. He tried to discipline his company like acompa
. The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1861-1865 [electronic resource]: a history of its part and place in the war for the union, with an outline of causes of war and its results to our country . soldier would evidently have thebest of it. The captain desired to be respected and to have hisorders obeyed. Respect did not always follow. The soldiers some-times debated his orders in an evening town meeting. Then we had the smart captain. He really could learn understood well, he read the army regulations and acquired thetactics in short order. He tried to discipline his company like acompany of regulars. He tried to be peremptory and do as he hadseen the captain of regulars do, but his excellent recruits objectedto such impertinence and had a town meeting. We had every grade of captain and lieutenant betweeti thesetwo. Some of these young lieutenants certainly gave promise of v-,S IIII. IIK>I MUM IIKWV \ beini; they afterward heeame. ma^nitu ent soldiers, (ieneralsat twenty! hold, dashing, discreet, skillful warriors. You have seentheir laces looking as they did in o; with their companies. Whathovs what men! what soldiers these vouni; officers <^S ()!•• IM I-: y) Of Course the very nature of things in military life would ha\ethe ettect to either send the old man home or take his life before heever reached a battle. The boy would become acclimated, accus-tom himself to the exposures and hardships of camping and campaigning. while usually the older man gave out before he learned. The limits of these pages forbid going into details. The com-rades will well understand them. Those who have been born sincethe trying clays of the Civil War can only imagine what a grindingup, polishing up, and smashing up was this process of developing aregiment from green officers and green recruits. Among the good friends of the First Maine was a man who,though occupying the important office of Vice President of theUnited States and presidi
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