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In spite of Lee's demonstrations in other quarters to direct attention, General Meade driven by necessity continued to move fresh troops incessantly to protect his left; and success finally came as the reward of his energy and soldiership. Longstreet found his weary troops met at every new step in advance by fresh lines, and, as night had now come, he discontinued the attack.
I have orders to return with him to headquarters, where I trust his acceptance of parole will enable me to avail myself of your introduction to show him what courtesy our camp life admits, in atonement for the execution of my present unpleasant devoir." "I shall esteem your acquaintance the more highly," answered Harold, "that you know so well to blend your soldiership with kindness.
The ceaseless wars with the Moors had trained the whole manhood of the nation to soldiership. The constant exercise in arms made of chivalry, in Spain, a more solemn and serious calling than elsewhere.
Laurens was one of those brave and ardent spirits, generous, high-souled, and immaculate, which, in times of sordid calculation and drilled soldiership, recall to our minds the better days of chivalry.
High officers were occasionally disloyal, or willing to sacrifice their country to personal pique; still more frequently they were ignorant and inefficient; but the enlisted man had more than enough innate soldiership to make amends for these deficiencies, and his superb conduct often brought honors and promotions to those only who deserved shame and disaster.
The actual losses in Stuart's command left, however, no doubt of the obstinate soldiership of officers and men. Of its value to the army, the infantry might have their doubts, but General Lee had none.
The number of stragglers thus lost I am unable to state with accuracy, but it is greatly exaggerated in the dispatch referred to. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, R.E. LEE, General. The solicitude here exhibited by the Southern commander, that the actual facts should be recorded, is natural, and displayed Lee's spirit of soldiership.
We met a train of cars with a regiment or two just starting for the South, and apparently in high spirits. Everywhere some insignia of soldiership were to be seen, bright buttons, a red stripe down the trousers, a military cap, and sometimes a round-shouldered bumpkin in the entire uniform.
It was well managed, and is, I am told, a very creditable piece of soldiership. It does not belong to my story but to history, to which I leave it. Things did happen, however, that do concern me. The first was laughable though vexatious. This was the manner of it.
But I undertook to make Oliver here a soldier, and, damme, what you want to do isn't soldiership, and he'll only learn soldiership by mastering the little problems first." "Like sums at school," said I, whereat Margaret laughed aloud. "Damme, you young rascal," stormed the Colonel, "if I'd got my commission in my pocket, I'd put you under arrest for impertinence."
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