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Title: Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937 Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-1933 Century Company
Subjects: Command of troops
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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and, OPERATIONS OF 1861 ABOUT FORT MONROE. MS but particularly the rights of property-owners in our vicinity. Foragingand depredations of all kinds were forbidden, and as a rule the orders wereobeyed, yet cases of disobedience constantly came to light, for it was onlyby stern experience that officers and men were taught the peculiar dutiesof a soldier. Food was at times irregularly issued to the men, and again wasunwholesome and repellent, thus rendering the soldier doubly liable to fallunder the temptations of generous foraging. Some of the clothing issued to the men during the early days of the civil warwas made of the vilest shoddy and literally fell from their bodies. In Fort ^_^ Monroe men in the 2d New York Volunteers appeared on paradewith blankets wrapped about themto conceal a lack of proper gar-ments, and sometimes stood senti-nel with naked feet and almostnaked bodies. The only reason forship was the dishouesty of contrac-tile lack of experience and celerityordinates of the
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thistors, in the sub- ;j;;gQuarter-department atAmong theencamped onour neigh-Zouaves. Thedubbed thistheir baggyreckless bear-legged devils,them with thethe Bashi-Bazouks.A private letter froma Confederate, read incamp, said: We haveno fear of your New York,Troy, Vermont, or Massachu-setts men, but I own that we do notwant to meet those red-legged devilsaround our houses or hen-coops.It was a well-known fact that theZouaves rations included chicken,roast pig, ham, corn, and other first-class food. By the verdict of numer-ous squads in all the regiments,many articles of food near at handwere declared contraband of war, master- GeneralsWashington,liveliest soldiersany field werebors, DuryeasConfederates hadregiment, fromred trousers and the red-and had investedcharacteristics of -LIGHT-HOUSE, FORT MONROE. 2.—CHESAPEAKE HOS-PITAL, HAMPTON, VA. 3.—SALLY-PORT, FORTMONROE. FROM WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPHS. 146 OPERATIONS OF 1861 ABOUT FORT MONROE.

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