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ARTILLERY IN THE FIELD. 
part of the Sectional Commander and the Gunners on the axle-tree 
seats in the first instance, and on the part of the scouts in the second, 
would have averted reproach on a field-day, disaster in actual warfare. 
It is a lesson I think we should all of us do well to lay to heart, if 
we are to make the working of Artillery in the field thoroughly 
sensible and up to date; two qualities absolutely indispensable to our 
usefulness j indeed, I may say to our very existence. 
