Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 44: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics; November, 1879
The struggle in front of New Orleans shows the excellences of a militia of marksman and the defects of all militia. The night attack on the British camp was executed with great spirit; but the assailants had an unusually inspiring leader, and two fifths of them were reg ulars. In the deciding con?ict the troops on the left bank were mom than three fourths militia; but they held an nu ?aukable line of field-works, and the re sult was a slaughtering victory. On the right bank there were no regulars, and the position could be turned, and the re sult was an easy defeat. It is the old militia tale of a good fight behind ram parts, and a very poor one in the field.
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