The dissolution of the standing army, including the Black Brigade, was the immediate result of these decrees.
Hydrants are fixed in all the streets for the use of the fire brigade, which has a well disciplined and efficient personnel, and does not lack opportunities for the exhibition of its skill in a town built largely of wood.
We don't need the entire brigade.
In the meantime a French brigade had, after a tough struggle, effected a lodgment at Kum Kale.
He entered the Confederate army in 1861, took part as a private in the battle of Wilson's Creek, and as colonel commanded the Tenth Texas Infantry at Arkansas Post, Chickamauga (where he commanded a brigade during part of the battle), Missionary Ridge and Atlanta.