“O’Sullivan immediately proposed that the army form into companies of fifty men each, commanded by a captain supported by one lieutenant and four sergeants. But, sadly, this ‘cou’d not be followed, they must go by tribes ; such a chife of a tribe had sixty men, another thirty, another twenty, more or lesse ; they wou’d not mix nor seperat, & wou’d have double officers, [that] is two Captns, & two Lts, to each Company, strong or weak. That’, O’Sullivan pithily observed, ‘was uselesse.’ This irregular, clan-focused arrangement was both a strength and a weakness of this embryonic army.”