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Second Regiment Cavalry
He instructed the officers nights at his headquarters,and drilled the regiment in the day time, when the company commanders were not Busy with their drills. He was a very, very strict disciplinarian, rough in manner, but with a kind heart when rightly touched. Ho taught the officers obedience first, then to drill, mounted and dismounted, and to meet a surprise from any quarter and receive it, either mounted or dismounted, as occasion required, and so thoroughly were we drilled in this that, in the years of the war following, we very frequently had occasion to dismount and form rapidly in any direction, and always met the rebels successfully, often surprising them in not being able to surprise us."
American civil war
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