Some More On Drilling-- Part 2: "It Would Make a Horse Laugh"

**  "Of course, we drill; it would be hard to imagine a military camp without drill; but it would make a horse laugh to see us do it."

David Lane, 17th Michigan Infantry in his diary August 24, 1863.

**   "I don't know what Oi'll do.  You want us to drill in English and the devil a wurd I know but French."

An Irish-born Confederate soldier in a Louisiana regiment to his lieutenant.  Something about those Louisianans speaking French, you know.

--Old SecDrill