Camp Banks, Baton Rouge,
February 21,
1863.
. . . . I am gradually getting this regiment into shape.
Field, staff, and company officers report to me every morning immediately after
reveillé as we of
yore did to “Little Bill Lee,” and you. All the little “dodges” that we picked
up together I am working in. Any first sergeant knows, that if he should appear
on guard-mounting or dress parade, with his white gloves soiled, he would have
to take that lozenge out of his chevrons. I have only had to reduce two first
sergeants since I took the regiment. That for “absence without leave.” Ben
sends me an orderly every morning, resplendent with brass and blacking. . . . .
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 66
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