e adjutant and the
regimental quartermaster and commissary; and the surgeon of the
regiment and his assistants required two more.

Each company was assigned one team. A single regiment--ten companies
--would seldom have less than eighteen large teams to enable it to
move from its camp. Something was, however, due to the care of
new and unseasoned troops, but in the light of future experience,
the extreme folly of thus trying to make war seems ridiculous. A
great change, however, occurred during the later years of the war.
When I was on active campaigns with a brigade of seven regiments,
one team was allowed for brigade headquarters, and one for each
regiment. In this arrangement each soldier carried his own half-
ten (dog-tent) rolled on his knapsack, and the quartermaster,
commissary, medical and ordnance supplies were carried in general
trains. This applied to all the armies of the Union. The Confederates
had even less transportation with moving troops.

But we must not tarry longer with these details. Henceforth we
shall briefly try to tell the story of such of the campaigns,
events, and scenes of the conflict as in the ensuing four years of
war came under our observation or were connected with movements in
which we participated, interweaving some personal history.

( 1) His resignation was accepted December 29, 1860. Howell Cobb,
of Georgia, Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury, resigned December
8, 1860, and was, on February 4, 1861, chosen the presiding officer
of the first Confederate Congress. He left the United States
Treasury empty. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, Buchanan's Secretary
of the Interior, resigned January 8, 1861. He had corresponded
with secessionists South, and while yet in the Cabinet had been
appointed a commissioner by his State to urge North Carolina to
secede. He became an aid to Beauregard, but attained no military
distinction. In 1864 he went to Canada, and there promoted a plan
to release prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, and to seize the
city, and was charged with instigating plots to burn New York and
other Northern cities.

( 2) _Am. Cyclopedia_, 1861 (Appleton), pp. 430, 431.

It is interesting to note that Louisiana, jointly with the Confederate
States, issued in April and May, 1861, made from captured United
States bullion, on United States dies of 1861, gold coin, $254,820
in double eagles, and silver coin, $1,101,316.50 in half dollars.
In May, 1861, the re