A Popular Life of Gen George a Custer Major General of Volunteers Brevet Maj
A Popular Life of Gen George a Custer Major General of Volunteers Brevet Maj
Frederick Whittaker
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A brigade of cavalry and a division of in- fantry in a single army, both mere skeletons, constituted all the regulars, except in the batteries of artillery and the headquarter escorts of a few generals. These, from the feebleness of their numbers, attracted little attention. It might have been and probably was expected, that this small force, by its innate su- periority, should fill to the volunteers the office of Napoleon's Old Guard to the rest of the French army, to be the last re- serve, st...eady and invincible, capable of deciding every battle. 326 GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER. This expectation, if entertained, was disappointed. The regu- lars, after Bull Run, ceased to be distinguished for any special valor or constancy, and merely fought alongside of the rest of the army, neither better nor worse. The cause for this state of things was simple. At Bull Run, the small force of regulars present was made up of veterans, and Bhoue by contrast with the rest of the army. As time went on, the veterans grew less and less in number, and were replaced by green recruits.
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