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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia . (search)
Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia. By Carlton McCarthy, Private of Second Company Richmond Howitzers, Cutshaw's Battalion.
[Many of our boys who wore the gray will be glad to see these vivid pictures of what they experienced, and many others will rejoice to have these details of soldier life.
And these minutiae are by no means beneath the notice of the grave historians who would know and tell the whole truth concerning our grand old army.]
Paper no. 1.--the outfit modified.
With the men who composed the Army of Northern Virginia will die the memory of those little things which made the Confederate soldier peculiarly what he was.
The historian who essays to write the grand movements will hardly stop to tell how the hungry private fried his bacon, baked his biscuit and smoked his pipe; how he was changed from time to time by the necessities of the service, until the gentleman, the student, the merchant, the mechanic and the farmer were me
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia . (search)
Detailed Minutiae of soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia. By Carlton McCarthy, Private of Second Company Richmond Howitzers, Cutshaw's Battalion.
Paper no. 2.--romantic ideas Dissipated.
To offer a man promotion in the early part of the war was equivalent to an insult.
The higher the social position, the greater the wealth, the more patriotic it would be to serve in the humble position of a private; and many men of education and ability in the various professions, refusing promotion, served under the command of men greatly their inferiors, mentally, morally, and as soldiers.
It soon became apparent that the country wanted knowledge and ability, as well as muscle and endurance, and those who had capacity to serve in higher positions were promoted.
Still it remained true, that inferior men commanded their superiors in every respect, save one--Rank; and leaving out the one difference of rank, the officers and men were about on a par.
It took years to teach the e