. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . nstruction, we should find oiuselves at a disadvantage m our earlier encoun-ters. What he said had a good effect in making officers and men take morewillingly to the laborious routine of the parade ground and the regimentalschool; for such opinions as his soon ran through a camp, and they were com-mented upon by the enlisted men quite as earnestly as among the , hope kept the upper hand, and I believe that three-fourths of us stillcherished the belief that a single ca
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . nstruction, we should find oiuselves at a disadvantage m our earlier encoun-ters. What he said had a good effect in making officers and men take morewillingly to the laborious routine of the parade ground and the regimentalschool; for such opinions as his soon ran through a camp, and they were com-mented upon by the enlisted men quite as earnestly as among the , hope kept the upper hand, and I believe that three-fourths of us stillcherished the belief that a single campaign would end the war. Though most of oui* men were native Ohioans, we had in camp tworegiments made up of other material. The 9th Ohio was recruitedfrom the Germans of Cincinnati, and was commanded by Colonel RobertMcCook. In camp, the diilling of the regiment feU almost completely intothe hands of the adjutant. Lieutenant August Willich (afterward a general ofdivision), and McCook, who humorously exaggerated his own lack of militaryknowledge, used to say that he was only clerk for a thousand Dutchmen, so. MAJOK-GESEEAL GOKDOX A PHOTOGRAPH. 98 IVAK PREPARATIONS IN THE NORTH. completely did tlie care of equipi>ing and proA-iding for Ms regiment engrosshis time and labor. The 10th Ohio -svas an Irish regiment, also from Cincm-nati, and its men were proud to call themselves the Bloody Tinth. ThebriUiant Lytle was its commander, and hLs conti-ol over them, even in thebeginning of their service and near the city of their home, showed that theyhad fallen into competent hands. It happened, of course, that the guard-house pretty frequently contained representatives of the 10th, who, on theshort fmloughs that were allowed them, took a parting glass too many withtheir friends in the city, and came to camp Ijoisterously ch-unk. But the menof the regiment got it into then- heads that the 13th, which lay just oppositethem across the raih-oad, took a malicious pleasure in
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