After the fall of Petersburg, and when the armies of the Potomac and the James were in motion to head off Lee's army, the morale of the National troops had greatly improved.
It produced a morale which could only be overcome by desperate and continuous hard fighting.
In cavalry, Hood has the advantage in moraleand numbers.
They were involved in a police action in the system of Veganea, and their morale is shattered.
As you can imagine, it's raising hell with the morale of the recruits.
Certainly none of them showed the smallest lack of morale or any depression.
Finally, the morale of the army has reached an unexampled pitch.
As the retreat from Warsaw was a review of the Russian armies in reverse, so is Lutsk to-day a similar spectacle of the Muscovite armies advancing; but now all filled with high hopes and their morale is at the highest pitch.
In all of this fighting the Russian infantry has proved itself superb, with a morale which is superior even to that of 1914, when we were sweeping through Galicia for the first time.
On College Hill, morale and optimism were at their highest peak since the appearance of the comet.
His presence boosted themorale of the defenders immediately.
Yet in his second letter Sur la morale (1788) he is so plainly an unbeliever that the treatise had to be printed at Berlin.
Though a number of pastors latterly call themselves libres penseurs or penseurs libres, and a movement of ethical culture (morale sociale) has made progress, the forces of positive freethought are not numerically strong.
In three days, however, the workmanlike morale with which Louis and Mike started on the job has been undermined.
To build up her morale France must see that Germany is not re-established and that it remains forever a beaten enemy.
Worse still, it weakened the morale everywhere; and thus undermined, the strike rapidly disintegrated.
But another factor in the success of the campaign possibly even more important than the systems employed was the splendid morale of the organizers.
The giving of the food produced an effect upon their moralefar better than could have come from the distribution of ten times its value in money.
The morale of the organizing force and the steel workers demanded this.
The one event was at the beginning of the war, when the enemy's morale must be shaken.
The effect upon the moraleof the two forces, and the two governments, can be imagined.
The arrangement of a room has a great deal of influence on the morale of the wounded,' a doctor said to me.
It implied a confession of weakness that was bound to raise the morale of the enemy and to lower our own.
Thousands of letters, all in this strain, were reaching the German soldiers on the Somme, and they did not strengthen the morale of men already victims of terror and despair.
It was at this time that the morale of the German troops on the Somme front showed most signs of breaking.
XXIII By September 25th, when the British troops made another attack, the morale of the German troops was reaching its lowest ebb.
The intimate and undoubted facts of this break in the morale of the enemy's troops during this period reveal a pitiful picture of human agony.
It was not good for the morale of men who were just going up there to take their turn.
Its capture would, no doubt, increase the morale of our men after their dead had been buried and their wounded patched up and their losses forgotten.
The German General Staff on the western front was becoming seriously alarmed by the declining morale of its infantry under the increasing strain of the British attacks, and adopted stern measures to cure it.
At the very time when the morale of the German soldiers was lowest and when the strain on the High Command was greatest the weather turned in their favor and gave them just the breathing-space they desperately needed.
The losses of many of the German battalions were staggering (yet not greater than our own), and by the middle of August the morale of the troops was severely shaken.
The morale of men in the 393d Regiment, taken at Courcelette, seemed to be very weak.
Ludendorff writes of the broken morale of the German troops, and of how his men surrendered to single troopers of ours, while whole detachments gave themselves up to tanks.
A year of war morale resulted, as has already been noted, in a complete reversal of attitude.
A thousand times it has been explained that in an impartial mood we cannot carry on war; that unless the people come to feel that all the right is on our side and all the wrong on the enemy's, morale will fail.
The baffling of Lee's second attempt to invade the North left the struggle in Virginia about as it had been before, except that Lee's veteran army continued to grow steadily stronger in morale and weaker in numbers.
This fact--this change in the temper and morale of the men on either side--had greatly simplified the tasks set for Grant and Lee to solve.
The time had come when the morale of both armies was perfect, and when each was invincible, except by the pressure of utterly overwhelming force.
Best of all, as a source of confidence to Lee was the superb morale of his army.
We were tenfold worse than slaves; our morale was a thing of the past; the glory of war and the pride of manhood had been sacrificed upon Bragg's tyrannical holocaust.
Elliott, and other chaplains, held divine services every Sabbath, prayer was offered every evening at retreat, and the morale of the army was better in every respect.
He found it in rags and tatters, hungry and heart-broken, the morale of the men gone, their manhood vanished to the winds, their pride a thing of the past.
It was a great boost to our morale to know that someone loved us and was praying for our safe return.
That night morale was high; the camp literally buzzed with rumors.
The orchestra and singers did much to raise the morale of the camp.
This bolstered ourmorale more than our warehouses.
This was accounted for, no doubt, by its intended influence upon Allied morale in the great German offensive of early 1918.
Russia, even more feebly organised for production than ourselves, would have been at a tremendous disadvantage, both from the point of view of protection and of the retention of satisfactory morale by retaliation.
The question of morale was bound up in this retaliation.
But few realised the part played by the preparatory gas attacks in that and other sectors of the line, in weakening the numerical strength and battle morale of effective reserves.
The Germans were fond of using the Flammenwerfer during counter-attacks and raids in which the morale factor is so important.
With numbers anywhere near equal, the Cubans were almost sure to win, because of their superior moraleand their better knowledge of the country.
The Ladies' Home Journal could best serve by keeping up the morale at home and by helping to meet the problems that would confront the women; as the President said: "Give help in the second line of defense.
His moraleis shattered on account of recent and frequent reverses.
Its success went to prove that the Italian Army had been effectively reorganised, and that its morale was again high.
But in view of what happened later, I think it must be agreed that these continual raids and bombardments did their share in gradually wearing down the morale and power of resistance of the Austrian Army.
The Germans with their "special gas" and with other factors in their favour, counted on breaking, not only the line of the Second Army, but the morale of the Italian people.
And the effect upon the self-confidence and morale of the Italian Army and of the Allied contingents was correspondingly great.
The action had a depressing effect on Union morale but greatly boosted that of the Confederates.
Within 2 weeks the defenses of Richmond had been strengthened and the morale of the troops greatly improved.
The character of his opponent, the morale of the hostile troops, the nature of the ground, and the manner in which physical features could be turned to account, were all matters of the most careful consideration.
In any case this would have involved a long halt in a secure position, and in a few weeks the Federal strength would be increased by fresh levies, and the morale of their defeated troops restored.
But it by no means followed that it could be forced for the second time in face of a concentrated enemy, who would have had time to recover his morale and supply his losses.
Such was the opinion of Jackson, always solicitous of the morale of his command.
Aware of the sanguine and impatient temper of his adversary, confident in the morale of his troops, and in the strength of his position, he foresaw that an opportunity might offer for an overwhelming counterstroke.
Prestige was on the side of the Confederates, and their morale was high.
Several of his officers whom he found in the town he immediately sent back to the colours; but as he believed that "the morale of his regiment was not as it should be" he remained himself in Philadelphia.
The morale of the troops had suffered, and still more the morale of the leaders.
This enforced retreat was not without effect on the morale of either army.
Nor was the influence of their achievement on the morale of the whole Confederate army the least important result attained.
