...would not answer at roll call. Discipline had gone. A feeling of mistrr.st pervaded the whole af'rny. A train load of provisions came into Dalton. The soldiers...him everything was his soldiers, and the newspapers, criticizing him at the time, said, " He would feed his soldiers if the country starved." We soon got...

...through the ranks of the common soldiers, shaking hands with every one he met. He restored the soldiers pride; he brought the manhood back to the private's...proud; the blood of the old Cavaliers tingled in our veins. We did not feel that we were serfs and vagabonds. We felt that we had a home and a country worth...