The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02
NAPOLEON IN THE FIELD.
Personal Comfort, Celebrity of Trav-
Ell and safety When on the March.

ell and safety When ON the March.
Prof. W. NJ. Sloane in the Century.
The admirable celebrity and accuracy of
Napoleon's movements in the field were
due to the excellent arrangements by
which they We're made. His two insep-
arabic companions were the Grand Mar
shall DurOc and Caulaincourt, master of
the horse. The latter had always the map
of the country through which they We're
driving or riding ready for instant use.
The seats of the imperial carriage could
be converted into couch for the en-
peror's frequent night journeys, but or
dinarily Berthier and Murat took turns
at sitting at his side, while Caulaincourt
rode close beside the door. Behind, and
as near the wheels Is possible, rode seven
adJutants, fourteen ordnance officers and
four pages, who must be ready on the
instant to receive and carry orders. Two
of the officers must be familiar with the
speech of the country. Russian, his Egyp-
tan body servant, rode with them. There
We're also two mounted lackeys each car
rying maps, papers and writing mate4
rails. This escort was protected by a
body of mounted chasseurs. in case the
emperor alighted for any purposes, four
of these instantly did likewise, and sur
rounding him with fixed bayonets or
loaded pistols pointed outward to the four
points of the compass, preserved this rela-
tive position as he moved. Last of all,
came the grooms with extra horses; for
from seven to nine. These were SUBJ
stantially the arrangements still in vogue
during the Prussian campaign. There
after his distrust of those about him grad
ually increased, until toward the end of
his career it became acute, and then,
as a consequence, the numbers of his suite
were much diminished.
po IS haste the is' emperor found re-
lays of nine saddle horses or six
walls of from to 10 miles along his route.
In this way he often journeyed at the rate
of IA miles an hour for hours at time
scale, were made for the staff. This body
was under the Indispensable Berthier, and
was so numerous as to be practically cap
able of subdivision into several. In 1906
there We're 10 adjutants, heads of de-
partments with adjutants, 81 staff officers
and 80 engineers. Under the chief of art
fiery was a personal staff of is officers
and under the chief of engineers one of
49, and under the commissary- general one
of 43. Arriving at his night quarters the
emperor found his office ready-a tent or
room with five tables, one in the center for
himself, and one at each corner for his
private secretaries. On his own was map
orented, and dotted with colored pins,
which marked the position of every body
of his troops. For this campaign he had
only one in existence, prepared long in ad-
vance, by his own orders. 1t is significant
of the Prussian oVer-confidence and SUI
pineness that they had none. AS soon as
possible was arranged the emperors bed
cnamDef, across lhe tlool u Wliicll Leu9 al
slept and adjoining it was another for the
officers on duty. Dinner occupied less than
20 minutes. for in the field Napoleon ate
LITTLE. and that rapidly. BY in the evening
he was asleep.
At o'clock in the morning the comnan-
der-in-chief arose, entered his office, where
the secretaries were already at work,
found all reports from the division ready
at his hand, and then, pacing the floor,
dictated his dispatches and the orders for
the coming day. There is an accepted ira
ditiop that he often simultaneously COM
nosed and uttered in alternate sentences
two different letters, so that two secreta-
ries were busy at the same time in writing
papers on different topics. The orders,
when completed and revised were handed
to Berthier BY in the morning they We're
on their way, and reached the separate
the soldiers set out on their march. 1t was
nv such perfect machinery that accuracy
in both command and obedience was as
sured.