The Republican System of Organization

In most armies, in normal armies, you only get in-country brigades. What the Republicans did was to say these brigades need to operate independently. That means that they all have to have their own artillery batteries and medical companies. But what became clear very, very quickly was that these units were not going to have to be operating independently. They'd be operating as part of divisions. Those divisions would have to beoperating as part of core. Core would have tobe operating aspart of armies. And so what the Republicans come up with is if you like the notion of a brigade as a miniature army. Why did they do this? Because they were thinking in terms of the