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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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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)
and Quartermasters, with few exceptions, never went into action. Indeed, for them to do so, was contrary to explicit and very proper orders. So, too, of Surgeons. But Venable could no more keep out of a fight than Stuart's Chief Surgeon, Talcott Eliason, of whom Stuart says in his rollicking fashion (in his official report of the Gettysburg Campaign): Surgeon Eliason, though without a superior in his profession, would, from his conduct on the field, excel as a Colonel of Cavalry. The ComSurgeon Eliason, though without a superior in his profession, would, from his conduct on the field, excel as a Colonel of Cavalry. The Commissary of the First Virginia Artillery had a way of suddenly turning up in the very thick of things to ask his Colonel some utterly idle and irrelevant question about rations for the men, and the Colonel tried to look severe and the battery commanders winked at each other and at Venable, when the latter said, And now, sir, if I could carry any orders for you, as I see your Adjutant has gone. Thus it was that Stuart, who, on Jackson's fall on the evening of May 2nd, at Chancellorsville,