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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], A tribute to the gallant dead. (search)
eads armies to battle and victory. At the well-contested battles of Cartada, Samboda, and Taos, where the enemy numbered three to one, all who saw him agree in saying, that none conducted themselves with greater coolness, courage, and gallantry, than Gen. Slack. He remained in this service about fourteen months, having volunteered for twelve. When his country no longer needed his services he resumed the practice of law at Chillicothe, which he continued to pursue until he received from Gov. Jackson the appointment of Brigadier-General of the 4th Military District, when he turned his attention to the organization of troops according to the military law of the State of Missouri. He had mustered in but a few companies, and these far apart, at different points in the district, when eight hundred Federals were landed from the cars, on the night of the 14th of June, 1861. at Chillicothe; and he was forced to leave his home and family, to which he was destined never to return. From t
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], General Greene--retreat through the Carolinas. (search)
Memoir of Gen. T. J. Jackson. A friend of this illustrious warrior, whose deeds are now resounding from one end of the Confederate States to the other, has enabled us to give the following sketcn the year 1842 a cadet had been appointed from his district to West Point, who declined to go. Jackson immediately conceived the idea of filling the place he had left vacant. Our informant says, thrain in that country, the roads were muddy as they are muddy nowhere else that ever we heard of Jackson arrived in time; but on account of the muddy roads, the Postmaster had furnished the mail an hour before time, and the stage was already gone. With characteristic fidelity to his promise, Jackson sent the horse back, instead of riding him on in pursuit of the stage, and took it on foot througire of the enemy was so severe that more than half his troops, who were raw, incontinently ran. Jackson was advised to retreat; but he said if he could get a reinforcement of fifty regulars, he would
The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
The Steuarts. --George H. Steuart, commanding the cavalry under Gen. Jackson, is a West Point Cadet of 1844, (a native of Maryland,) entering then the 20 dragoons, was promoted captain in 1855, and was honorably distinguished in a fight with the Cheyenne Indians in 1855. James R. B. Steuart, who is distinguished in the cavalry service in another division of our army, is a West Point graduate of 1854, and a native of Virginia, and was also first distinguished in service against the Indians.