The arms had been changed since then and Hardee's tactics had been adopted.

I got a copy of tactics and studied one lesson, intending to confine the exercise of the first day to the commands I had thus learned.

By pursuing this course from day to day I thought I would soon get through the volume.
We were encamped just outside of town on the common, among scattering suburban houses with enclosed gardens, and when I got my regiment in line and rode to the front I soon saw that if I attempted to follow the lesson I had studied I would have to clear away some of the houses and garden fences to make room.

I perceived at once, however, that Hardee's tactics--a mere translation from the French with Hardee's name attached -- was nothing more than common sense and the progress of the age applied to Scott's system.

The commands were abbreviated and the movement expedited.