The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-12

| deposit its knapSacks, to throw itself
more rapidly upon the enemy over
burdened with equipments. Each sol
der will have his canteen filled with
wine and water, and be provided with
one ration of meat and bread. me
officers will remove, before battle, eV-
cry sign of their grade. Every man,
without distinction of rank, VIII 90
tain immediate promotion, If ne !, as I,
tinguishes himself in battle; All the
regimental bands will take their place
in the rear to play our ola heroic
marches while the dance goes, on.
The enemy has long boasted OF the
rapiditv and sureness of his fire, but
7 think brave friends. that this will
NOT nro6t him. 1t is not likely that
we will give him time to fire at us.
We shall attack him with our bayo-
nets and the butt ends of our mus
kets. AS soon as the enemy, with the
help of God, is beaten and forced to
retreat, we shall follow him closely.
You will rest yourselves in his prov
inces, where you will find ;he various
amusements Qes nombreuses distrac-
tons that a heroic and victorious
army will have so well deserved.
BENEDEK.
THE GERMAN TROOPS IN THE FIELD.
A correspondent of the London
Daily NeacS thus describes the appear
ance of some of the troops who have
taken the field in Germany:
/ We should take a hint from the
Austrians as to the manner they di-
minish the weight of the cartouche
box with sixty rounds of ammunition.
This is a very great improvement,
with little or no expense, by small
round belt which passes through
rings. This belt is attached to the
pouch, and also to about the middle
of the pouch belt, so that when the
men run the cartouche belt remains
steady, prevents the destruction of the
cartridges in striking against the sol
diers' hips, and prevents the painful
abrasion of the skin of the hip on
long days march in hot weather. A
British soldier in action, if running,
is obliged to use one hand to hold the
pouch steady if he do not wear a
waist belt, capital continuance either
to rupture him or deprive him of
breath.
The Austrian soldiers are in gen
eral strong, healthy fellows, and look
as if they would stand Z" a lot of kill
ing" Their white uniform, which
always looks clean / suppose by hot
pipeclay), has a very good effect, with
their neat little blue KEPT" always
worn except on fete days, when they
have the old British cap at top, with
little stripe of common lace of
yellow color. This is made of COM
mon pasteboard, and costs the sol
diers, when all ready, about one shill-
ing and three pence. They are we'll
shod, and in wet weather wear black
cloth CATERS, turned in at the ankles,
buttoned over their Kentish gray
trousers.
The uniform of the Bavarians is of
a dark Kentish gray color, with high
and apparently heavy helmet, tipped
with black fur. They are a stout
body of men, requiring little brush
ing up, not seeming to pay much at
tention to military elegancies."
The town of Frankfort has a bat
talon of the line, which is recruited
from discharged soldiers of the differ
ent German governments. Their
clothing is of superior description
their pay and their rations are very
liberal, and after FIVE or seven years
service they become entitled to
gratuity of about FIVE hundred guild
ers, with the rights of citizenship
They have peculiarly neat appear
ance, and are decidedly the best nour-
ished men in garrison. Foreigners
must be astonished at the we'll fed
appearance of the Frankfort garrison
upon what seems to us their small ra-
tons But this. is easily accounted
for. Out of one hundred soldiers, at
least eighty have female friends, the
servants of the inhabitants. These
all carry baskets on their arms, which
contain the choicest morsels, from
their masters tables, for the susten-,
ance of their military heroes.
The Frankforters being old soldiers,
have all the female cooks on their
staff, while the Austrians pay their
attentions to the nursery and cham
ber-maids; the Bavarians solace them
selves with beer, while the Prussians
are so drilled from morning to night,
that they are glad to remain in bar
racks
Since the 18th of June, troops of
different States have been arriving
day and night The first which ar
rived were from Darmstadt. consisting
of dragons, infantry and artillery,
the former on good horses; the men
not well set up, but equipments good.
| The men of the infantry and artillery
are not robust, and the uniform can
scarcely be distinguished from that of
the Prussians. They, too, wear the
heavy Prussian Roman helmet. In
this German civil war, unless some
| distinctive marks are used, there will
I be many mishaps, firing on each other
instead of against Prussians.
i The Darmstadters were followed by