Wednesday, April 18, 2012

It is said that during the winter . . .

. . . the infantry regiments on the Potomac have made great improvement in their bayonet drill, and some of them can defy a cavalry force, so dexterously do they thrust, parry, and guard with the musket and bayonet.  Cold steel will be freely used when the advance is made.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 1

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