Posted on 10/09/2021 7:22:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Oct. 8.
The feature of to-day was the review of artillery and cavalry on the great plain east of the Capital. There were twenty-one batteries of artillery and fifty-seven companies of cavalry on the field. Of the artillery, eleven batteries were of regulars and twelve volunteers -- in all, one hundred and twenty guns. Among the guns were four thirty-two pound brass pieces, in charge of the men who were at Port Sumter. The proportion of twelve-pound howitzers and ten pound Parrott guns was very great. Of the review itself little can be said. The material of the cavalry squadrons was most superb, the men and horses being much better than the average of volunteers. I have before alluded to the dull, heavy manner in which Gen. McCLELLAN conduct these reviews. It is a stupid performance generally, end to-day's was an aggravation of all previous defects. The attendance was very large. The President was present, as were also several members of the Cabinet, and Col. SCOTT, the Assistant Secretary of War. The General was accompanied by a very large staff, and by a body guard of about one hundred and fifty men. Those who recollect the magnificent manipulations of the corps of Flying Artillery, under RINGGOLD, at Fort Lafayette, long before the Mexican war, would have been disappointed at the tame movements of to-day -- movements that were confined simply to a walking parade of the Artillery by battery fronts. After reviewing, the column passed in front of the commander, and then filed off to their respective quarters.
After the review to-day, when one of the caissons attached to CAMPBELL'S Artillery was pushing through Pennsylvania-avenue, and when opposite the White House, a shell exploded. It did little damage, the pressure of the explosion being outward.
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Something is happening “today” at Fort Pickens, Pensacola, Florida.
I’ll have information on it tomorrow...
Reading these posts, you can see how NYT readers of 160 years ago would be convinced the South was endlessly on the verge of collapse for the next 4 years.
I do find them fascinating.
It won’t make the NYT until the 13th.
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