Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-02
The Superiority Of scOtps Tactics.

In the military exigencies of the day, it is
a matter of prime Importance that there
should be uniformity in the system of disci-
pline adopted by the new levies for the Fed.
eral service. The text.b books, now most in
use in this city, and We presume elsewhere in
the North, are Hardee's Gilham's and Coop
er's. Hardee is Georgian, Gillian Vir-
ginian, and all three of these authors, at this
moment traitors in arms against the Re-
public. They are profting by the sale Of
their works, and to that extent the purchas-
ers OF them are aiding the rebel resources.
But this is a trifiiDg evil compared with
having diverse systems ofdrill, &C., practiced
by men who must act on large scale as a
unit in the field o..
The laws of the United States require that
the militia, when in the service of the Gov
| erDment, should be exercised by the same
| system as the regulars. 1t is indispensable
! that all the volunteers mustered into the SER
vice should understand movements on a
grand scale and "Evolutions of the Line"
| are as indispensable TO their complete efi-
cheney, as the primary lessons of a squad.
! The third volume of SCOTS Tactics embra-
| Ces instruction in evolutions of the line.
| Hafdee and Gilman touched the bottom of
| their shallow rebel knowledge, when they
had, by stealing from Scott's and other works,
with such changes as literary thieves usu-
ally employ, covered the exercise Of
the company and the regiment Their
students, having exhausted this much,
are in the end, obliged to flush their
education in the movement of large
masses of trOops, by referring to Scott-the
only complete writer on the science and art
Of bis profession, recognized by the War De-
partmeDt. Reference TO the printed order
on the first page of SCOTS Tactics, signed by
Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, shows that the
work is the prescribed drill of the United
Ststes Infantry. An order on the first page
Of HaIdee's book, signed by the now arch
traitor JEFF. Davis, then Secretary, now pre-
scribes the drill of the army, only when serv-
ing as Light Infantry and Rifemen. But
Scott alone covers infantry of the line and
all evolutions of the line. t.L-..--...
These being the facts, why should ii not
he made imperative by order of the Cover
nor, in whom, as c0mmander-in-chief of the
States forces, the power is vested, that all
cur militia should at once adopt Seetfs Idc-
tics2 That system carried our soldiers
through the Mexican war, with its glorious
old author at their head, and it is due to bis
past services, as we'll as to his present official
position and bis unflinching patriotism, when
ihe Hardees, Gilhams and Coepers are with
other villains in arms against their country
Further, ScOtts short treatise on Light In
iantry Tactics, in his second volume, wa
the system by which Mccall and U. +
Smiths battalion Of light troops won theil
lauIels. .Ht4
These suggestions we present 90 high auC
disintertsied military authority. They seen
10 us 20 be fortified by moral considerations
ss well as by the manifest need of pertec
uniformity in the course of instruction, which
the grand armies Of the North are receiving
from the first order to raw recruits-"fall in 7
to the general orders for pitched battle.
AFRE FoBLoRR HoPE.-0n Monday abou
thirty men of the hard. hitting kind went II
body TO Col. Wilson'S head. quarters in NeV
YoIk to offer themselves as recruits. "Gla
, TO see you, gentlemen" said the Colonel
} "but If you enlist with me, assure you this
{ half of you will be in your graves in les
than three monthsb Unable 10 restrain thei
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