This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...in two minutes' drinking every twenty-four hours, is certainly not an equivalent to the relief from its use and care. If the bits were kept with a steel polish, as in the civil service, there might be a good reason for using the bridoon bit on fatigue duty to spare the curb bit from dirt and rust after it was hung up ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...in two minutes' drinking every twenty-four hours, is certainly not an equivalent to the relief from its use and care. If the bits were kept with a steel polish, as in the civil service, there might be a good reason for using the bridoon bit on fatigue duty to spare the curb bit from dirt and rust after it was hung up clean and ready for parade; but we see no other valid excuse, so long as the curb bit with two reins will answer the purpose. Experience in war relieves an army of a vast deal of unnecessary encumbrance, which is added to by the apparent necessity for small and trifling things carried with it as a convenience for each individual composing it. An army thus encumbered is like a written speech; it loses half its force in details, which the off-hand, extemporaneous speech dispenses with, and exposes the facts without the fogs. (See our paper on the subject to General Mi'.roy, December, 1883, and deposited in the Cavalry Bureau, War Office, Washington, D. 0., and subsequently partially acted upon in Sheridan's army, and perhaps in other armies during the latter end of the war.) In March, 1862, when the Army of the Potomac moved on Eichmond, the First New York (Lincoln) Cavalry Regiment took forty-eight quartermaster wagons on the campaign. Three years afterwards, when with Sheridan in the Valley of the Shenandoah, the regiment was brigaded, and when the brigade moved again on Richmond and on to Appomattox, it was composed of three regiments--the First New York (Lincoln), and the First and Third West Virginia (the Second Virginia remained in the Valley)--there was but one wagon allowed to the brigade, thus in stripping this veteran and experienced army for the campaign, 190 wagons, 764 mules and 191 drivers were dispensed with, and there being noue b...
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