Red Tape And Pigeon Hole Generals As Seen From The Ranks During

_Snicker's Gap--Private Harry on the "Anaconda"--Not inclined to turn Boot-Black--"Oh! why did you go for a Soldier?"--The ex-News-Boy--Pigeon-hole Generalship on the March--The...

In this wintry weather, striking tents meant stripping the log huts of the bits of canvas that ordinarily served as the shelter-tents of the soldiers. The long rows of huts thus...

_Departure from Sharpsburg Camp--The Old Woman of Sandy Hook--Harper's Ferry--South sewing Dragon's Teeth by shedding Old John's Blood--The Dutch Doctor and the Boar--Beauties o...

_Dress Coats versus Blouses--Military Law--Bill the Cook--Courts-Martial--Important Decision in Military Law--'A Man with Two Blouses on' can be compelled to put a Dress Coat on...

_The March to Warrenton--Secesh Sympathy and Quarter-Master's Receipts--Middle-Borough--The Venerable Uncle Ned and his Story of the Captain of the Tigers--The Adjutant on Strat...

_The Army again on the Move--Pack Mules and Wagon Trains--A Negro Prophetess--The Wilderness--Hooped Skirts and Black Jack--The Five Days' Fight at Chancellorsville--Terrible De...

_The Reconnoissance--Shepherdstown--Punch and Patriotism--Private Tom on West Point and Southern Sympathy--The Little Irish Corporal on John Mitchel--A Skirmish--Hurried Dismoun...

_A Skulker and the Dutch Doctor--A Review of the Corps by Old Joe--A Change of Base; what it means to the Soldier, and what to the Public--Our Quarter-Master and General Hooker-...

If the reader can imagine the contents of his nearest corner grocery thrown confusedly together under a canvas covering, he will have a tolerably correct idea of the interior of...

_Reconnoissance concluded. What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited...

_Camp near Warrenton--Stability of the Republic--Measures, not Men, regarded by the Public--Removal of McClellan--Division Head-Quarters a House of Mourning--A Pigeon-hole Gener...

_Red Tape and the Soldier's Widow--Pigeon-holing at Head-Quarters and Weeping at the Family Fireside--A Pigeon-hole General Outwitted--Fishing for a Discharge--The Little Irish...

_A Regimental Baker--Hot Pies--Position of the Baker in line of Battle--Troubles of the Baker--A Western Virginia Captain on a Whiskey Scent--The Baker's Story--How to obtain Po...

Picket duty, while in this camp, was light. Even the little tediousness connected with it was relieved by the beautifully romantic character of the scenery. Confined entirely to...

_The Scene at the Surgeon's Quarters--Our Little Dutch Doctor--Incidents of his Practice.--His Messmate the Chaplain--The Western Virginia Captain's account of a Western Virgini...

_The Treason at Harper's Ferry--Rebel Occupation of Frederick--Patriotism of the Ladies of Frederick--A Rebel Guard nonplussed by a Lady--The Approach to Antietam--Our Brigadier...

Presentations by men to officers should be prevented by positive orders; not that the recipients are not usually meritorious, but the practice by its prevalency is an unjust tax...

"The General commanding Division desires to see Lieutenant Colonel ----, 210th Regiment, P. V., Judge Advocate, immediately," were words that met the eye of the latter officer,...

_The Pigeon-hole General and his Adjutant under Charges--The Exhorting Colonels Adieu to the Sunday Fight at Chancellorsville; Reasons thereof--Speech of the Dutch Doctor in Rep...

An early call to arms was sounded upon the succeeding morning, and the Division rapidly formed. The batteries that had been posted at commanding points upon the series of ridges...

_The Advent of our General of Division--Camp near Frederick City, Maryland--The Old Revolutionary Barracks at Frederick--An Irish Corporal's Recollections of the First Regiment...

Reconnoissance concluded--What we Saw and What we didn't See, and what the Good Public Read--Pigeon-hole Generalship and the Press--The Preacher Lieutenant and how he Recruited-...

A Skulker and the Dutch Doctor--A Review of the Corps by Old Joe--A Change of Base; what it means to the Soldier, and what to the Public--Our Quarter-Master and General Hooker--...

Departure from Sharpsburg Camp--The Old Woman of Sandy Hook--Harper's Ferry--South sewing Dragon's Teeth by shedding Old John's Blood--The Dutch Doctor and the Boar--Beauties of...

The Pigeon-hole General and his Adjutant, under Charges--The Exhorting Colonel's Adieu to the Sunday Fight at Chancellorsville; Reasons thereof--Speech of the Dutch Doctor in Re...

Dress Coats _versus_ Blouses--Military Law--Bill the Cook--Courts-Martial--Important Decision in Military Law--A Man with Two Blouses on, can be compelled to put a Dress Coat on...

Snicker's Gap--Private Harry on the "Anaconda"--Not inclined to turn Boot-Black--"Oh! why did you go for a Soldier?"--The ex-News-Boy--Pigeon-hole Generalship on the March--The...

The Scene at the Surgeon's Quarters--Our Little Dutch Doctor--Incidents of his Practice--His Messmate the Chaplain--The Western Virginia Captain's account of a Western Virginia...

Camp near Warrenton--Stability of the Republic--Measures, not Men, regarded by the Public--Removal of McClellan--Division Head-Quarters a House of Mourning--A Pigeon-hole Genera...

The March to Warrenton--Secesh Sympathy and Quarter-Master's Receipts--Middle-Borough--The Venerable Uncle Ned and his Story of the Captain of the Tigers--The Adjutant on Strate...

The Reconnoissance--Shepherdstown--Punch and Patriotism--Private Tom on West Point and Southern Sympathy--The Little Irish Corporal on John Mitchell--A Skirmish--Hurried Dismoun...

The Treason at Harper's Ferry--Rebel Occupation of Frederick--Patriotism of the Ladies of Frederick--A Rebel Guard nonplussed by a Lady--The Approach to Antietam--Our Brigadier...

A Regimental Baker--Hot Pies--Position of the Baker in line of Battle--Troubles of the Baker--A Western Virginia Captain on a Whiskey Scent--The Baker's Story--How to obtain Pol...

The Army again on the Move--Pack Mules and Wagon Trains--A Negro Prophetess--The Wilderness--Hooped Skirts and Black Jack--The Five Days' Fight at Chancellorsville--Terrible Dea...

The Advent of our General of Division--Camp near Frederick City, Maryland--The Old Revolutionary Barracks at Frederick--An Irish Corporal's Recollections of the First Regiment o...

A Day at Division Head-Quarters--The Judge Advocate--The tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee of Red-Tape as understood by Pigeon-hole Generals--Red Tape Reveries--French Authorities on...

A Picket-Station on the Upper Potomac--Fitz John's Rail Order--Rails for Corps Head-Quarters _versus_ Rails for Hospitals--The Western Virginia Captain--Old Rosy, and How to Sil...

Red-Tape and the Soldier's Widow--Pigeon-holing at Head-Quarters and Weeping at the Family Fireside--A Pigeon-hole General Outwitted--Fishing for a Discharge--The Little Irish C...