The weather is very warm and pleasant. The regiment is
becoming quite proficient in battalion drill, Colonel Hare seeming to
understand the movements quite well. When the Colonel gives the orders to the
different company officers, he usually simply says to Compton, “You know how to
move your company.”
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 20
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