Daily Times
Leavenworth, Kansas
June 8, 1861
The Albany Standard scorchingly, though good humoredly,
comments as follows:
comments as follows:
“We hope the ‘world’ will make a note of this fact. When a Mississippi soldier is shot down, he should have a bed of rose leaves to die on. He should feed on canvass-back ducks, and have two negroes to carry his musket. When gentlemen go to war they should have gentlemanly treatment throughout. The “Red Glove Battalion,” from the South, we understand grease their boots with oil of lavender, and catch cold if they sleep in a room with a damp tumbler. Their tents are to be filled with French bedsteads, bureaus and looking glasses, while they are only to drill in pleasant weather. They may be very nice troops to look at through a smoked glass, but they are hardly the men to contend with the brawny arms to be found in the New York Fire Brigade. The Mississippi and Louisiana troops are too fine for use. Soldiers who wish to fight under umbrellas and sun-shades won’t do for rough work. They might better be kept at home to adorn picture books.”