We may not be able to march 20 miles but in a battleline we do the job of two men because we lengthen the company front by that equal distance and the captains think they have a company of 50 men with only 5 of us present. Also everyone in the rear ranks are eager to be behind us because the enemy will never see them and bullets and artillery shells will never penatrate our body mass to injury anyone back there.
In a charge no fortifications can resist the kenetic enegry stored within us once we get moving. Each of us can hold 5 yankee's as prisoners because we can sit on that many and they will never be able to get up. But they may need medical care afterwards. We work wonders as Commissary sargeants because we know all the recipes for making hardtack, peanuts and acorn coffee into a 5 course goumet meals. Give us a little flour and we can bake a 5 layer cake from scratch. We carry our prepacked survival ration (long range reconnaissance laps) with us at all time.
These are just some of the many advantages that the Fat Arkansas Re-enacting TroopS have over our skinny counterparts. We are the Sumo soldiers. Rofl.