Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-06-06
0nr Army I'm the Field.

We have now in the field nearly two hun
dred Thousand men; the third levy about
to be made, will raise the total to three
hundred thousand. The levy will be filled
as soor as made; for upon the first de-
lnand Of seventy-five thousand volunteers,
three hundred thousand were offered
Such a rally for our threatened govern
ment astonishes the old world; and even
the grumbling London Times is forced to
acknowledge the marcel and commend the
splendid demonstration of free Republi-
can people. Enlistments in the navy are
rapidly going on; and of the additional
eighteen thousand sailors authorized to be
enlisted, eleven thousand are already OBJ
tanned, and the men apply SO fast that the
whole number will soon be full. The Wide
Awake organizations of the last Presiden-
tial campaign brought under the influence
half million of men, and did something
towards populariziug military discipline
and waking the people of the North to the
great uprising now exciting the admiration
of the world-the rebels of New Dahomy
excepted.
Gen. Scott has now opened the CAM
paign with vigor, and recusant Virginia
has with criminal folly consented to be-
come the battle ground. Our armies are
moving safely and steadily towards her
Capital which they will invest and pos
sess long before the traitor Davis realizes
his boast of dining in the White House.
If Gen. Scott has been slow as some sup
pose, he has acted with his usual foresight
and wisdom in rot moving until volunteers
should acquire something like military hab-
its. Another object be had in view is now
gradually becoming manifest. 1t is to
bring into the field, says the United States
Gazette, all the available forces of the reg
ular army, and TO concentrate them in tho
avdance guard of the grand forward. If
he can by this means place ten thousand
regulars in front of the army advancing
south, it would be irresistible by Southern
Volunteers. To accomplish this it is nee
ecessary to put volunteers in the service
where the regulars are and have been, and
this must necessarily be somewhat slow in
execution. As soon, however, as it can be
done, Scott will have in the field splen-
did force of cavalry and artillery, for which
he has been waiting.
He well krows that while artillery is of
immense consequence in deciding the fate
of an action, il is not so much so because
of the number of guns and men as the
manner in which they are handled, the eff
cheney of the force, the accuracy of aim,
and the expertness which none but veter,
an soldiers can attain in this branch of SER
vice. For infantry and rifleman the citi-
zen volunteers can be rendered effective.
But cavalry requires long and severe train
ing. In view of these considerations, it
has been deemed necessary to increase the
regular army, and this is now in progress.
When thus expanded to twenty-five thou
sand men, that body will doubtless consti-
tute the vanguard of the advancing forces,
leaving the volunteers for garrison duty,
and to act as flying corps. Meantime these
volunteers have improved so much in dis
cipline as to raise them materially in the
estimation of all military critics. In the
expeditions upon which they have thus far
been employed, they have acted well, and
accomplished so many important results
that Gen. Scott has been induced TO COM
mence offensive field operations much soon
er than he had intended, and they will be
prosecuted rapidly. ae