Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty, January 10, 1862

General Mitchell gave the officers a very interesting lecture this evening. He is indefatigable. The whole division has become a school.

Had five lieutenants before me. Lesson: grand guards and other outposts.

SOURCE: John Beatty, The Citizen-soldier: Or, Memoirs of a Volunteer, p. 95

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