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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 2: Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights—Darnstown, Maryland.--Muddy Branch and Seneca Creek on the Potomac—Winter quarters at Frederick, Md. (search)
carried into effect in the same place as before, the Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment hastily marched his men far out of sight or sound of our camp. They returned long after the hour had expired, overcome with fatigue, but with not a trace of mental laceration through our cruelty. For the third time and last, on the third morning, the same expedient was adopted while the remainder of the sentence was executed. Almost two hundred years ago, during the reign of the Prince of Orange, the people of England looked with apprehension upon the organization of Regulars. Macaulay has well portrayed the dangers that threatened the country through mobs of undisciplined men calling themselves soldiers :-- It was necessary there should be regular soldiers, and it was indispensable, both to their efficiency and to the security of every other class, that they should be kept under a strict discipline. An ill-disciplined army has ever been a more costly and a more licentious