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            Brigade Orders, second Brigade, 8. Division, 
                                                    Augusta, Sept. 25. 1798.

The Brigadier-General is gratified with the martial ap pearance which was generally displayed by the troops of the second Brigade at the late regimental reviews. And while he wishes not to withhold that tribute of applause which is justly due, on the occasion, to many of the officers and men, he regrets that he has not been able to find that information & improve ment in the science of tactics, among too great a proportion of the officers, and particularly in the 1. & 2. regiments, which their commissions enjoin, and which their reputation as officers, ought to have secured. He strictly enjoins on every officer, not only to furnish himself with the late Steuben's book of regulations, conformable to the requisitions of our militia law, but an attentive & studious perusal of his duty as exhibited therein; and hopes no officer will, on any future occasion, disgrace his commission or wound the military feelings of his re- viewing Officer, by appearing at the head of a plattoon without some knowledge, at least in theory, of the simple manoeuvres of a battalion. Those officers & men (& such there were in every corps) who demonstrated their