Sherman's Ideal Organization
Imaginary Armies
In the last chapter of his memoirs, William Tecumseh Sherman sketched out an ideal organization for an American army of the 1870s.
At the time of Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration, viz., March 4, 1861, the Regular Army, by law, consisted of two regiments of dragoons, two regiments of cavalry, one regiment of mounted rifles, four regiments of artillery, and ten regiments of infantry, admitting of an aggregate strength of thirteen thousand and twenty-four officers and men.
