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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 11 (search)
w on sick leave in November, 1863, and died in Washington on December 16th, receiving a commission as major-general only on the day of his death. As a Confederate colonel at the first Bull Run battle, General Early reported: Stuart did as much toward saving the battle of First Manassas as any subordinate who participated in it; and yet he has never received any credit for it, in the official reports or otherwise. His own report is very brief and indefinite. In a letter to President Davis, General J. E. Johnston recommended Stuart's promotion, which was made September 24, 1861: He is a rare man, wonderfully endowed by nature with the qualities necessary for an officer of light cavalry. Calm, firm, acute, active, and enterprising, I know of no one more competent than he to estimate the occurrences before him at their true value. If you add a real brigade of cavalry to this army, you can find no better brigadier-general to command it. In an account of the raid i
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), 13. famous chargers (search)
ncinnati, also a present from a gentleman in St. Louis, who on his death-bed sent for Grant and presented him with the finest horse in the world. The little black pony to the right is Jeff Davis, captured in a cavalry raid on the plantation of Joe Davis, brother of the Confederate President, near Vicksburg. Jeff Davis looks indifferent, but Cincinnati and Egypt have pricked up their ears. Perhaps they were looking at General Grant. The battle chargers of the general officers of the Convis, a pony that won General Grant's approval at the siege of Vicksburg by his easy gait. General Grant was suffering with a carbuncle and needed a horse with easy paces. A cavalry detachment had captured a suitable mount on the plantation of Joe Davis, brother of the President of the Confederacy, and that is how the little black pony came by his name. The great Union general was more apt to call him Little Jeff. The general used him throughout the siege, but he felt that the commanding gen