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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
A brilliant coup.
How Wade Hampton captured Grant's entire beef supply.
Colonel Cardwell's thrilling story.
[from the Charleston, S. C., News and Courier, Oct. 10, 1894.]
The greatest cattle raid of the War—2,486 beeves driven from Coggin's Point into the Confederate lines.
After that fateful day, May 11, 1864, when the bullet of the enemy took from the cavalry corps its great commander, J. E. B. Stuart, at Yellow Tavern, that man who Longstreet said was the greatest cavalryman he job on that road and sent a brigade to Stony Creek to try and intercept the head of the column there.
All this time our cattle were on the trot, and with all their forces they could not stop them.
Zzza safe appeal to the verdict of history.
I think, as I have intimated, this raid ranks as high as any performance by any troops, and I am surprised that abler pens than mine have not long since given it the prominence that it deserves. D. Cardwell. [From Baltimore Herald, Aug. 13, 1894
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)