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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 306 6 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Tarheels' thin Gray line. (search)
pity; but I don't know how to help it. I do the best I can. How many Yankee cavalry do you think you are good for? Well, said he, I've got 800 muskets present for duty. By a week's time, as the boys get back from the hospital, I'll have 1,000. Well, with 1,000 muskets, I think I can take care of 5,000 Yanks on horseback. All right, said I, wait and see. I hope you can. So I got my breakfast and went off, mightily tickled at the conceit of the Tarheel, for Sheridan's cavalry, with Custer, Torbett and Devens, were about as good soldiers as ever took horse or drew sabre. We had drilled them so that in three years we had taught them to ride. They were always drilling enough to fight, and they learned the use of the sabre from necessity. Well, things went on as usual. Every morning Sheridan would send a regiment out to feel Early, to drive in his pickets, so as to make sure where he was and to know where to find him, and every morning I'd ride over to the Berryville road,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby's men. (search)
ch is the fate of all of Mosby's men. Not Custer. It was then thought that this was done by the order of General George A. Custer, as the citizens reported he was seen at the time passing throngagement, while it is not mentioned in any of Custer's reports. It was Lowell's brigade that was et was under his immediate supervision, and not Custer's, that our men were executed. Neither Colonedy, and I so stated in my letter to Sheridan. Custer never denied it. There is a report of Captal the glory for what was done at Front Royal. Custer had a grudge against us. A few weeks before, aport. Any one can see it in the war records. Custer had ordered the houses to be burned in retaliaster) issued an order directing Colonel Alger (Custer published Alger as a deserter a few days after00 there were not over fifty of my men there. Custer burned no more houses that day. Burning dweured by us and exchanged. So Torbert—Merritt— Custer—and Lowell couldn't plead ignorance. Major Ru[8 more...
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.45 (search)
en were killed in the fight and none wounded. Custer's report says nothing about the Front Royal afely hanged by order and in the presence of General Custer. They also hung another lately in Rappaha. It is my purpose to hang an equal number of Custer's men whenever I capture them. * * * Very rrough his adjutant, to hang an equal number of Custer's men in retaliation for those executed by himrder and in the immediate presence of Brigadier-General Custer. Since then another, captured by a Cssible, to confine its operation to the men of Custer and Powell. Accordingly, on the 6th instant, number of Mosby's command who were hung by General Custer. Of the seven upon whom the lot fell, thrin Brewster, commissary of subsistence of General Custer's command, was among the parties captured.er of Colonel Mosby's men hung by order of General Custer at Front Royal. Measure for measure. satisfied, and then, like Torbert, Merritt and Custer, say nothing about it. As I wished to make an[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.46 (search)
wn. After a sharp skirmish, this attack seemed remedied, and I started back. （P. 1282.) General Custer, commanding the Third Federal cavalry division, says (p. 1132): Learning that the enemy was l Devine, commanding 1st cavalry division, reports (p. I 126): On arriving near the station, General Custer was found to be engaged with the enemy's advance, and the first and second brigades were dismounted and pushed in on his right. General Custer's assertion notwithstanding, there were no two divisions of infantry, nor, from all information now attainable, any body of infantry with that col, how guns and men escaped capture. The citations from official reports given above show that Custer's and Devine's divisions of Federal cavalry were present and engaged, and other forces were nearss condition of that column of artillery, and his statement emphasizes the absence of infantry. Custer's assertion, on the other hand, of two divisions of infantry, is necessarily only his estimate o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.53 (search)
Feb. 18, 1900.] An instance of the brutality of Custer. His Retributive fate. [This account appears toavy Getz, of this place, by the command of General George A. Custer. While the article is generally correcten back by the bayonets of the Federal soldiers. Custer's camp was about one mile south of Woodstock. Herstatement of the character of the man, and besought Custer to look at him, as one glance would have convinced erchant and a strong Union man, at whose house both Custer and Torbert had occasionally made their headquarter as it was in his power. He earnestly besought General Custer to release the poor idiot that was in his hands. When Custer intimated that he proposed to have him shot, Mr. Heller boldly exclaimed: General Custer, you wGeneral Custer, you will have to sleep in a bloody grave for this. Surely, a just God will not permit such a crime to go unavengedned by the exhibition of brutality upon the part of Custer. The words of Mr. Heller, we all now know, proved
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
agement at, 2. Chase, Salmon P., 368, 369. Cheat Mountain, Advance on, 42. Clinkscale, Dr., Frank, killed, 162. Cold Harbor, Battle of, 162, 218. Confederate, Ability of generals, 290; Supreme Court—there was none, 307; Soldiers, privations of, 323; their amusements, 325; conduct after the surrender, 333; valor and devotion of, 383. Corinth, Battle of, 343. Couch, General D. N., 267. Cox, General W. R., 92. Craven, Commodore T. T., 223. Creigh, David, Murder of, 183. Custer, General George A., 255, 321, 329; his brutality, 372. Dana, C. A., 284. Davidson, Captain, Hunter, 221, 224. Davidson, Colonel R. M. H., Address of, 116. Davis, Henry Winter, 367 Davis, President, Effort to rescue, 132. Downing, H. H., Address of, 262. Drewry, A. S., 92. Du Bose, John W., 102, 293. Duncan. John N., 296. Dunn House, Quarters at the, 325. Early, General J. A., 52, 266; Campaigns of 1864, 1. Ebert, Valerius, 289. Edwards, Colonel O., 319. Ellerson's