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Each and all refused to furnish troops or to pay a war tax. The imperial troops were, consequently, compelled to enforce their maintenance, and naturally became the objects of popular hatred. In this wretched manner was the empire defended! The petty imperial corps on the Rhine were, meanwhile, compelled to retreat before an enemy vastly their superior in number.
Gillespie delivered the order about 1 o'clock, and when the corps was put in motion, General Warren joined me at the front.
Our unmilitary Appearance. First Equipage. My Black Mare. Good and Evil Influences. News-Boys. Mail-Bag. Letter-Writing. The Bugle Corps. Camp Guard. Guerillas under Turner Ashby. Mounted Drill. Laughable Experiences with Horses. Southern Egotism. Northern Fancies. Drill! drill! and camp-police are the order of the day.
Montgomery Blair, the father of General Frank P. Blair, then commanding a corps in Sherman's Army, begged the North to halt and listen to reason to stop the fratricidal war. Generals, soldiers, statesmen, and civilians all felt that it had gone on long enough. Some held a faint hope that peace could be secured without further effusion of blood.
When the corps was first raised, many of the young men had been inclined to protest against boys being accepted, when the list could have been readily filled with men but, by this time, the boys had proved that they were quite as capable of supporting fatigue as were the men.
The cavalry were, it is true, composed mostly of young fellows well-appointed, and in most cases well-mounted; but a more disorderly, careless, undisciplined set of good-humored fellows never formed a corps in the world. Monsoon's opinions were felt in every branch of the service, from the adjutant to the drumboy, the same reckless, indolent, plunder-loving spirit prevailed everywhere.
A request from the commander-in-chief to MM. Osmont and Friant that they choose between their present ministerial functions and their respective positions in the Corps Expeditionnaire gave rise to a correspondence between the marshal and the Emperor, in the course of which the aggressive insistence of the latter compelled the former to refer the matter to the home government.
An intercepted despatch proved these to be Bülow's corps. He instantly sent off a despatch to Grouchy, whom he supposed to be within reach, ordering him to attack Bülow in the rear. Then followed the memorable succession of charges by the whole of the French cavalry upon the squares of the British infantry.
My head-quarters were at the Belle Grove House, which was to the west of the pike and in rear of the Nineteenth Corps.
"No. That makes it simply awful." "Pretty awful." "Billy we must get him back." "I I don't know about that. He isn't much good, is he? I think we'd better let him go." "Don't you see how awful it'll be for the Corps?" "The Corps? Does that matter? McClane would take us all on to-morrow." "I mean for us. You and me and Gwinnie. He's our Corps, and we're it."
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