Battalion-drill
to-day. It was just as hot as yesterday, and some say hotter. The lieutenant
colonel, James Smith, came last night, and has taken charge of our military
education. He has been in the service, and was in the battle of Antietam. Some
say he is a West Pointer. At any rate we have a drillmaster who understands his
business. One thing that has already made him dear to us is that he makes the
officers come to time just as well as the men. He told them, in so many words,
that they had as much to learn as we. If he holds out as he has started off, he
will stand well with the rank and file, however he may stand with the officers.
Hurrah for Colonel Smith!
SOURCE:
Lawrence Van Alstyne, Diary of an Enlisted Man, p. 41
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