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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 3 (search)
the morale of the troops. The root of the evil, however, lay deeper—lay in the really vicious system governing the primary organization of regiments and the appointment of their officers. Prince de Joinville: The Army of the Potomac, p. 17; Lecomte: Guerre des Etats-Unis, p. 55. In just views regarding this, as regarding most other matters relating to the war, the people were much in advance of the Government; and one of the most curious instances of this is a formal memorial at this tiotomac, has a development of thirty-three miles. As to the value of this system of defences for the safeguard of Washington, that is a vast, complex, and difficult question, not to be entered on here. It has been very severely criticised by Colonel Lecomte in his work, Campagne de Virginie et de Maryland en 1862; and to these animadversions a warm rejoinder has been made by General Barnard in The Peninsular Campaign and its Antecedents. Such is but a faint setting forth of the manifold act