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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Major Andrew Reid Venable, Jr. [from Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch.] (search)
untry even in the darkness, and safely delivered the message to Lee. In those heroic days, compliments did not fly thick and fast, as in the great Spanish War, and to be mentioned in dispatches meant a good deal. Of this daring ride, Stuart says simply, in his official report: Major Andrew R. Venable, Jr., A. A. and Inspector-General, deserves special mention for his conduct in evading the enemy near Auburn and reaching the Commanding General with important dispatches on the night of October 13th. To this generation, those few words may not mean much. To Andrew Venable's surviving comrades, they are pregnant with martial meaning. But the hero of Gettysburg had no desire to try conclusions with his fierce and wary adversary, and slipped away from the crucial test, counting its avoidance a clever manoeuvre. What a complete answer to latter-day military sciolists, who blame Meade for not pursuing Lee after Gettysburg, blatantly assuming the demoralization of that veteran sold