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Troops furnished by the same State were, as far as possible, brigaded together, in order to stimulate State pride, and a spirit of healthy emulation. "The regiment was formed for attack in line two-deep, covered by skirmishers. "The number of skirmishers, and the intervals between the men on the skirmish line, depended altogether on the situation.
The force that went from Columbus to Island No. Ten included General Trudeau's command of ten companies of heavy artillery and the Southern Guards who acted as heavy artillery. The light batteries were brigaded with the infantry. Some progress had been made in throwing up batteries on the island and at the bend.
These multitudinous strata present such resemblances and differences among themselves that they are capable of classification into groups or formations, and these formations again are brigaded together into still larger assemblages, called by the older geologists, primary, secondary, and tertiary; by the moderns, palaeozoic, mesozoic, and cainozoic: the basis of the former nomenclature being the relative age of the groups of strata; that of the latter, the kinds of living forms contained in them.
Then they swore vehemently and vowed that this was magnificent but not war. Indeed it was not. The Regiment could not halt for reprisals against the franctireurs of the country side. Its duty was to go forward and make connection with the Scotch and Gurkha troops with which it was brigaded.
The regiment was first brigaded under General Albert E. Payne of Wisconsin, a noble and brave officer, afterwards with the Thirteenth Connecticut. The Twenty-sixth Maine and One-Hundred and Fifty-ninth New York, under Colonel H. W. Birge, of the Thirteenth Connecticut, as Brigade Commander, an officer of rare ability and bravery and a disciplinarian of the best stamp.
I asked of Indians our Hudson guides, and the brigaded White Plains Indians. None seemed to know or if they did they made no answer. And the soldiers did not know, and only laughed, taking me for some camp wanton " Again she passed her slender hand slowly across her eyes, shaking her head. "That I am not wholly bad amazes me at times.... I wonder if you know how hunger tampers with the will?
He's no blood kin to you, though." "No, but he is awfully good underneath, isn't he?" "Got a heart of pure gold, old Waite. Why, I've seen him cry like a baby over one of his men that got hurt." "Have you known him, then, for a long while?" "Ever since the Spring of '61. I was brigaded with him all through the war, and had to cut a bullet or so out of his hide before it ended.
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