Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864

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Various. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864

AN ARMY: ITS ORGANIZATION AND MOVEMENTS

SECOND PAPER

ÆNONE:

A TALE OF SLAVE LIFE IN ROME

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

AMERICAN SLAVERY AND FINANCES

EXTRACT

THE CROSS

THE ENGLISH PRESS

IV

LIFE ON A BLOCKADER

BUCKLE, DRAPER; CHURCH AND STATE

FOURTH PAPER

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN

ONE NIGHT

I

II

III

IV

APHORISM.—NO. VII

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER ON SECESSION AND STATE RIGHTS

'SECESSION

'SLAVERY

'THE LOVE OF UNION

APHORISMS.—NO. VIII

THE RESURRECTION FLOWER

RECOGNITION

THE SEVEN-HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY OF A GERMAN CAPITAL

THE DANISH SAILOR

AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

CHURCH MUSIC

APHORISM.—NO. IX

LITERARY NOTICES

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Having, in the preceding paper, described the general organization1 of an army, we proceed to give a succinct account of some of the principal staff departments, in their relations to the troops.

Army organization—notwithstanding the world has always been engaged in military enterprises—is of comparatively recent institution. Many of the principles of existing military systems date no farther back than to Frederic the Great, of Prussia, and many were originated by Napoleon. Staff departments, particularly, as now constituted, are of late origin. The staff organization is undergoing constant changes. Its most improved form is to be found in France and Prussia. Our own staff system is of a composite, and, in some respects, heterogeneous character—not having been, constructed on any regular plan, but built up by gradual accretions and imitations of European features, from the time of our Revolution till the present. It has, however, worked with great vigor and efficiency.

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'You say that she is here? Is it—do you speak of Leta?' cried Ænone.

'Leta was her name,' he responded, in some surprise that his secret had been so promptly penetrated before he had more than half unfolded it. 'And she is here.'

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