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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.30 (search)
nd trees, rocks, etc., he was able to check the advance of Averill's 5,000 cavalry, and compel a delay until their infantry ceed the big army at Richmond? As early as December, 1863, Averill's cavalry made a hazardous attempt to accomplish its destrn subjected to. Again, on the 1st day of May, 1864, General Averill made another raid. His starting point was Charleston,road. John Morgan and his raiders were close after them. Averill was compelled to evade Morgan to accomplish his purpose, athe raid on Lynchburg. On June 3d, the combined forces of Averill and Crook left Lewisburg and marched in the direction of S8th we were in the vicinity of Staunton, where Crook's and Averill's forces united with the forces of General David Hunter, wPresbyterian parsonage was put to a similar purpose by General Averill. It was sad to me to leave Lexington, the scene of horses back. He, however, never got them, as Hunter's and Averill's uppermost idea was to denude the country of stock. On h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
e buried here once belonged might hesitate, in speaking to this generation, to connect the deeds of their dead comrades with the defeat of these great military plans. But the history of those times is so written by both friend and foe. We find the pages of that history, both immediately before this tragedy and immediately thereafter, filled with dispatches that recount the deeds of Mosby's men in connection with the movements of the armies. They are from Generals Stephenson and Augur and Averill and Torbert and Sheridan and Grant and Halleck, and even from Stanton, the Secretary of War. We find General Stephenson telegraphing that he cannot send subsistence to the army in front without a guard of one thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry for every two hundred wagons, and that escorts with dispatches had to cut their way through and often lost half their men; we find the commandant at Martinsburg telegraphing that scouts with dispatches report they cannot get through to Sher