Both boys and girls are dressed in military uniform and are
drilled two hours in rifle practice, firing ten shots at an imitation
enemy in a military suit, stuffed with straw, in different positions,
from one hundred to one thousand yards distance, every Sunday weather
permitting and in actual war one brigade of girls is assigned to every
division of the army to carry off the wounded and nurse them and to
assist in the defense whenever it is necessary, and also to garrison
and hold the lines of communication and their presence in the field
has been so inspiring to our boys that they never have turned their
backs to the enemy."
CHAPTER VIII.
THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
My next trip was to the War Department, where I was shown the Rules and
Regulations governing the army, and navy.
The army was organized in twenty-five corps of eighty thousand men
each, besides the ladies' army corps of an equal number; each corps
composed of three divisions of foot infantry and one division of mounted
infantry. Each division was composed of three brigades of infantry,
one regiment of sharpshooters and one regiment of artillery; each
brigade of three regiments and each regiment of twelve companies, one
hundred and fifty men each.
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