Never too much drill

[paulcalloway]

April 20, 1862
Mozart Regiment
On Picket Near Yorktown, VA., April 15.

... We left Old Point and crossed over to Hampton on the 24th, where we were treated to a battalion drill, or company drill, in the morning, and a brigade drill in the afternoon, and a dress parade after that. Roll call eight times a day and short allowance. ...

Source: Writing and Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury, Edited by William B. Styple. Belle Grove Publishing, Kearny, N.J., 2000. p. 82.