The Sisters of Charity, under the lead of Sister Anthony, a noble woman, came out in force, and their black and white robes harmonized picturesquely with the military surroundings, as they flitted about under the rough timber framing of the old barn, carrying comfort and hope from one rude couch to another.

As to supplies, hardly a man in a regiment knew how to make out a requisition for rations or for clothing, and easy as it is to rail at "red tape," the necessity of keeping a check upon embezzlement and wastefulness justified the staff bureaus at Washington in insisting upon regular vouchers to support the quartermaster's and commissary's accounts.

But here, too, men were gradually found who had special talent for the work.
The infallible newspapers had no lack of material for criticism.
There were plenty of real blunders to invite it, but the severest blame was quite as likely to be visited upon men and things which did not deserve it.

The governor was violently attacked for things which he had no responsibility for, or others in which he had done all that forethought and intelligence could do.

When everybody had to learn a new business, it would have been miraculous if grave errors had not frequently occurred.