. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . vacant, and the Confederate Presidenthad large if not absolute power in tilling them. On theother hand, the ci^il offices under Lincoln were occupiedor controlled Ijy party, and in the small regirlar army ofthe Union the law required that vacancies should as arule be filled by seniority. There was no retired list forthe disabled, and the army was weighed down by lon-gevity; by venerated traditions; by prerogatives of servicerendered in former wars; by the firmly tied red-tape of m
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . vacant, and the Confederate Presidenthad large if not absolute power in tilling them. On theother hand, the ci^il offices under Lincoln were occupiedor controlled Ijy party, and in the small regirlar army ofthe Union the law required that vacancies should as arule be filled by seniority. There was no retired list forthe disabled, and the army was weighed down by lon-gevity; by venerated traditions; by prerogatives of servicerendered in former wars; by the firmly tied red-tape of military bureauism,and by the deep-seated and well-founded fear of the auditors and comp-trollers of the treasury. Nothing but time and experience—possibly nothingbut disaster—could remove from the path of the Union President difficultiesfrom which the Confederate President was, by the situation, quite free. Inthe beginning of the war, the military advantage was on the side of the Con-federates, notwithstanding the greater resomces of the North, which producedtheir effect only as the contest was UNLFOSM OF THE 1ST JIAS AT BULL EUN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. 170 MCDOIVELLS ADVANCE TO BULL RUN.
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