112. THE STORY OF THE CIVIL. WAR IN AMERICA. 
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in spite of the efforts of the gallant volunteer officers . . ... . 
the great mass of the men quietly but definitely broke ranks and started 
on their homeward way.” 
A passage as to the indifference of the Anglo Saxon race to 
military art and training is well worthy of attention in this country, 
where we certainly, at anyrate until quite recently, seemed to show 
much the same apathy as was once noticeable amongst our cousins 
across the Atlantic. “It was not easy for men in Washington in 
the winter of 1861 to believe that a hundred thousand men, of their 
own race, with arms in their hands, animated by a genuine and exalted 
patriotism, could not without further delay be led to victory by a brave 
and energetic general . . . The difference between an army and 
a congeries of volunteer regiments was not appreciated.” When a 
civilian man of business can write thus the chances are that the differ- 
ence has at length been learnt in America, but it needed such battles 
as that of the first Bull Run to drive the lesson home. We trust the 
story of what occurred thirty years ago may be sufficient, without 
practical illustration, to convince the general public over here. Mean- 
while we have little doubt that officers will both enjoy and profit by a 
study of pages, of which space forbids us more than this inadequate 
notice, nor need they be guilty of ingratitude if they do so with a sense 
of favours to come. Members of our Institution at any rate will regard 
them with particular interest, remembering that last summer the Com- 
mittee elected their author an honorary member, both on account of 
what he had already accomplished in the field of military history, and 
because of an innate love of our profession which gives promise of still 
greater achievements in the future. 
