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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
of the feeble control of the State authorities. Some regiments were offered directly to the President by those who had raised them. Such was the Excelsior Brigade, composed of five regiments raised in New York in the course of a few weeks by Mr. Sickles, a former diplomat. The governor of the State insisted upon their forming a part of his contingent, but Mr. Sickles, in order to evade his authority, assembled his brigade in a fort then under the Federal jurisdiction, and set out shortly aftMr. Sickles, in order to evade his authority, assembled his brigade in a fort then under the Federal jurisdiction, and set out shortly afterward for Washington. The quarrel was of long duration, but Mr. Lincoln was at last induced by general representations to incorporate all independent troops into the particular contingents of the States in which they had been raised. This was but justice; for if those regiments had not been included in the quota of each of those States, their competition would have raised the enlistment bounties, lessened the number of available men, and thus hastened the period when it would have been neces
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
without the interposition of their superior officers. Occasionally a regiment would undertake a similar economy in regard to the supply of flour. A considerable number of those encamped around Washington constructed earthen ovens similar to those in use among Western settlers and made their own bread, thereby realizing the double advantage of substituting fresh bread for biscuit and realizing the profits accruing from the economy of their flour rations. One regiment alone, the third of Sickles' brigade, was thus enabled to save thirteen hundred dollars in less than two months. The task of supplying the Federal troops with arms and ammunition, which devolved upon the ordnance department, was the most difficult of all. In fact, both the government armories and private manufactories were insufficient to meet the demand, and it required time to establish additional ones. The wonderful machines by which the most complicated rifles now in use throughout Europe are constructed almos