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 resistance, directly after the battle of Cerro Gordo, saving thousands of heroic lives and enormous expenditures of money. This particular exhibition of inefficiency is wholly chargeable to Congress. Yet, even now, when an army officer goes before that body and asks for essential betterments, he may be met with the insinuation of selfish lobbying for personal advancement.

However, we won't cry over spilt milk. But you and I, and the folks back home, must see that such blunders do not occur in the future. [123]