Note 204 — Chapter XI · INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE REGIMENT: THE OFFICERS

For a good example, see Dickson Papers, pp. 622, 623, where the good Dickson gets one officer to own that he was “betrayed in a moment of intoxication” into insulting words, and the other to say that the counter-charge with which he replied was made “in a moment of great irritation and passion.” The apologies were both passed as satisfactory.