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from all over the North,
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and they were arriving now in whole new regiments,
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week after week after week,
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all formed in local communities across the North.
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The vast, vast, vast majority of them
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had never shouldered any kind of musket in their lives
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except possibly in a local militia,
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and only a tiny percentage of them had ever been in a militia.
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They actually grew to kind of love McClellan at first
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because he held great parades, great parades.
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He made them march like hell and train like hell
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and learn how to march sideways and forward