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U. S. Civil War
NINTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
I arrived here after an absence of two months, in the afternoon of the 11th inst., coming down on the same train as Brigadier General Thomas L. Crittenden, the newly-appointed commander of the post, and found that several material changes had been made in the location and encampment of the 23d brigade since my departure. Instead of the whole command camping together, as it had done, it was separated into two portions several miles apart. The brigade had never been drilled as such, nor a brigade guard mounted; each regiment furnished its quota of officers and men and watched certain roads; and worse than all, the commanding officers of the respective regiments were on ill terms with each other, and this feeling on one occasion had broken out into an open personal quarrel.
Civil War
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