fogy-witted

Updated: May 25, 2025

That is to say, it was so arranged that the fogy-witted lived, while the lion-hearted died. The organization of the vast numbers enrolled was excellent whenever experts were given a free hand. But this free hand was rare. One vital point only needs special notice here: the wastefulness of raising new regiments when the old ones were withering away for want of reinforcements.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray